GRAND JUNCTION, Col. - The Montana State University Billings Women's tennis team's season came to end Friday evening, but it ended with a victory as they defeated Metropolitan State University-Denver 5-1 to take fifth place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships.
 
MSUB 4 CCU 5
 
MSUB began the day with a narrow opening round loss to Colorado Christian University 4-5. 
 
The Yellowjackets came out of doubles down 1-2.  The number two team of Mary Conwell and Emily Paffhausen dominated on their way to an 8-1 victory.  The number one team of Morgan Opp and Madeline Loomis fell in a tight match 6-8 and the number three team of Hannah Shephard and Marissa O'Connell were defeated 3-8. 
 
In singles, Opp fell at number one 3-6, 3-6; Loomis battle in a tough fought match but fell 7-5, 6-7 (7-9), 6-3.  Shephard won her number three singles match 6-3, 7-6 (7-3); Conwell cruised to a 6-3, 6-0 victory and Paffhuasen mirrored her with her own dominated win 6-0, 6-3.  O'Connell fell 2-6, 3-6 and CCU escaped with the 5-4 win.
 
MSUB 5 MSUD 1
 
MSUB capped off their season in dominating fashion as they dismantled an injury ridden Metro team.  Metro had to forfeit number three doubles and number six singles as they were hit hard by the injury bug this season, to give MSUB a 2-0 lead before anyone even touched a tennis ball. 
 
In the RMAC Championship, the match is over and the players are pulled from the courts once one team wins five matches to clinch the overall match. 

The lone loss for MSUB came at number one singles as Opp fell 2-6, 0-6.  MSUB relied on Conwell and Paffhausen to clinch the match as they cruised to victories.  Conwell won her 13 match of the year 6-3, 6-0 and Paffhausen won her 12th match without dropping a game 6-0, 6-0 to secure the victory and fifth place finish.
 
"We ended our season with first round losses followed by wins from both teams," head coach Lew Kosich said.  "While the results were disappointing, we are very young losing only one senior from both teams.  Maddie has been a great player and her contributions will be missed.  Looking to next year, we will be a strong team.  Emily and Mary both had great years.  All of our ladies showed promise and we will look to build on this experience and be much stronger next year."