At the Brown Invitational, the sophomore tandem of Ashley Hyotte and Lola Ajilore upset the No.1-seeded duo from Boston College, Alison Ashley and Emily Yeomans.

Hyotte-Ajilore battled back after being down double match point to force a tiebreak, then took control of the game, winning the next six points. They won, 7-3.

In the final round, however, the duo could not overcome the powerful Alabama team of Ashley Bentley and Nathalie Koppelle, losing 8-3.

“We got off to a slow start,” Hyotte said. “They were all over the net, and we just couldn’t catch up.”

Sophomore Christina Chen topped her first-round opponent, Mariana Lee from Brown, riding several unforced errors by Lee en route to a tough 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7) victory. Chen lost a third-set tiebreaker in a Flight ‘D’ consolation game to Brown’s Hana Bartel, 6-1. 2-6, 1-0 (7-10).

Freshman Lyly Cao Minh defeated her first-round opponent, Celene Change from Princeton, but lost in the next round, 6-3, 6-1.

Liz Gass teamed with Princeton’s Nancy Zeronda and defeated a BU duo in Doubles Flight ‘D’.

Freshmen Moira Finicane and Alli Pilliner also took an early exit from the tournament. Finicane lost to Wei Ming Wong of Syracuse 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-7).

Pillinger withdrew from singles and doubles competition after straining a stomach muscle in her opening match.

In doubles, Finicane and Chen lost a close match to Princeton’s team of Kristen Carlin and Celene Chang.

“We were hoping to pick it up from last week,” Hyotte said. “We wanted to have more players in the finals in each respective flight. We just didn’t play as well as we hoped.”

—Contributing writer John R. Hein can be reached at hein@fas.harvard.edu.