The Iowa State Tennis team fell twice at home last week, losing by identical 8-1 scores to Oklahoma on Friday and Oklahoma State on Sunday.

ISU claimed a doubles win in each match. Mary Rumbaoa and Andrean Simons won in No. 3 doubles against Oklahoma, and Karin Westberg and Noortje Cornelissen triumphed in No. 1 doubles against Oklahoma State.

In the first match against the Sooners, ISU lost its first eight matches. OU swept the singles in straight sets.

Senior Andrean Simons did not play singles because Cyclone Coach Michele Conlon went to a younger look, playing Karin Westberg and Sharla Whitaker at No. 5 and No. 6, and moving the team’s other senior, Mary Rumbaoa, up to No. 4.

The Cyclones lost the first two doubles matches by identical scores of 8-4 before Rumbaoa and Simons prevented the OU sweep by handing the Sooner pair of Angela Stroup and Jennie Hamilton their first Big 12 loss of the season, 8-1 in No. 3 doubles.

The match against Oklahoma State was senior day for ISU because it was the final Big 12 home meet for Rumbaoa and Simons.

Simons returned to the singles line up at No. 2, but she fell 6-0, 6-3, to Domnika Olszewska of OSU.

Rumbaoa took Cowgirl Ashleigh Dolman to three sets before falling 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

However, Rumbaoa does hold the ISU record for most singles wins in a season by a player in the 1990s with 17 this season against just 12 losses.

Despite the efforts of the seniors and freshman Noortje Cornelissen, who took her first set to a tiebreak, ISU once again was swept in singles play.

ISU did win the No. 1 doubles, as Cornelissen and Westberg defeated Maria Galoustova and Dolman 8-5.

But OSU swept the final two matches to overtake the Cyclones with a score of 8-1.

ISU fell to 5-13 overall and 0-9 in the Big 12 Conference.

The team will get two more chances at a conference victory this week when they face Colorado and Nebraska on the road.

They will return home on April 20 to face Drake in the final match of the year.