INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – The Earlham College women's tennis team's historic 2017 fall season came to a close with a 5-0 loss to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) Tournament quarterfinal match on Friday evening.

The Fightin' Engineers, the No. 3 seed for the tournament, won all three doubles flights 8-0. Rose-Hulman won third singles 6-0, 6-0 and clinched the match at first singles as Anna Thompson beat senior Arrita Domi 6-0, 6-1. The match was played only to decision due to it being a postseason match. Second, fourth, fifth and sixth singles did not finish.

The 2017 women's tennis team broke a 36-match losing streak as well as posting a 7-8 overall record, the best mark for the program since the 2008 campaign.