The women's tennis team fell just short of a sweep on Saturday, dropping the evening match to Boston College, 4-3, after defeating Temple 6-1 earlier in the day.

Competing without two of its top players, Harvard (2-4) looked a little tired in the final singles matches against the Eagles. But there was certainly not a lack of effort in the defeat.

Five of the six singles matches went to three sets.

The evening match started out well for the Crimson as it swept all three doubles matches. Junior Sarah McGinty and sophomore Lara Naqushbandi won easily at the number three spot, and junior Jennie Timoney and senior co-captain Sanaz Ghazal shut out the eagles at the second slot.

The number one doubles match proved to be more difficult. Juniors Fleur Broughton and Andrea Magyera won an hour and a half long duel in the tiebreak by a score of 8-6.

That match would prove to take its toll on Broughton. She dropped 4-6, 1-6 at the number one singles spot later in the evening.

At number two singles, Naqushbandi was up 3-0 in the third set but would end up losing six straight games and fall 6-3, 1-6, 3-6.

At the number. four and five singles positions, McGinty and Timoney played identical matches until the third set. Each player dropped the first set 4-6 before recovering with 6-2 wins in the second. But McGinty would drop the third, 2-6, while Timoney won her final set easily 6-1.