FULLERTON -- Cal State LA's women's tennis team put up a good battle before dropping a 6-1 decision at Division I Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday.

The Golden Eagles lost the doubles point despite close calls at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles and then lost five of the six singles matches, although two of the singles defeats went three sets.

Cal State LA lost all three doubles contests, but Division I scoring awards one team point for doubles competition. Nozomi Matsuoka and Iris Raileanu lost by a close 6-4 decision at No. 1 doubles to Alexis Valenzuela and Camille De Leon, while Kayleigh Hall and Pyper Brown lost in a tiebreaker at No. 3 doubles, 7-6, to Danielle Pham and Sarah Nuno.

Raileanu earned the lone singles point for the Golden Eagles by beating Cal State Fullerton's Kaila Portalatin, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 4 singles.

Matsuoka won the first set before falling in a third-set tiebreaker at No. 1 singles to Valenzuela, 2-6, 6-2 (10-7) and Brown fell in three sets to Masako Makiba at No. 5 singles after taking the first set, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Hall also had a tight match at No. 3 singles, where she lost to De Leon, 6-4, 6-4.

Cal State LA will return to competition on Friday with a home match against Dixie State beginning at 10 a.m.

CAL STATE FULLERTON 6, CAL STATE LA 1
Singles
1. Alexis Valenzuela (CSUF) def. Nozomi Matsuoka (LA), 2-6, 6-2 (10-3)
2. Sarah Nuno (CSUF) def. Elizaveta Sokolova (LA), 6-1, 6-3
3. Camille De Leon (CSUF) def. Kayleigh Hall (LA), 6-4, 6-4
4. Iris Raileanu (LA) def. Kaila Portalatin (CSUF), 6-2, 6-2
5. Masako Makiba (CSUF) def. Pyper Brown (LA), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
6. Danielle Pham (CSUF) def. Snezana Ivanovic (LA), 6-0, 6-0
Doubles
1. Valenzuela/De Leon (CSUF) def. Matsuoka/Raileanu (LA), 6-4
2. Makiba/Portalatin (CSUF) def. Sokolova/Isabella Lopez (LA), 6-0
3. Pham/Nuno (CSUF) def. Hall/Broown (LA), 7-6