Owatonna, MN - The MLC women's tennis team played a couple of matches in Owatonna on Saturday and split the pair, falling 4-3 to Ripon in the morning and winning 5-2 to against Crown to finish off the night.

Ripon 4, MLC 3

MLC won two out of three doubles games with a victory in No. 1 singles 6-4 from the duo of Britney Prahl and Emily Gronholz. The Knights other win came from Elizabeth Bigelow and Callie Bivens in No. 3 doubles 6-4.

The singles matchups were all tightly contested, with Prahl keeping it close in No. 1 singles before being edged out. Gronholz had a hard-fought win in No. 2 singles, winning 2-6,6-3, 1-0 (10-2).

The third MLC point of the match came via Mathilde Bodenbender-Benner in No. 6 singles 6-2, 6-3.

MLC 5, Crown 2

The Knights closed out the day with its first victory of the 2026 season as MLC won 5-2 over the Polars. The Knights would once again claim two of the three doubles games with Prahl and Gronholz getting it done in No. 1 6-1, while Karly Miller and Rebekah Schroeder beat out their opponent in No. 2 7-6 (7-2).

Prahl 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 controlled her match in No. 1 singles, while Gronholz picked up another victorious outcome in No. 2 7-5, 6-4. In No. 4 singles, Schroeder took it 6-2, 6-1, and in No. 6 singles, Bivens topped her adversary 7-5, 6-3.

MLC women's tennis will have two weeks off before they play again at Lawrence University on Saturday, February 28, at 3 p.m.