ELSAH, Ill. - Webster University closed out its St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schedule here Saturday afternoon by suffering a 9-0 setback to Principia College at the Hexberg Tennis Center on the Principia College campus.

With the loss, Webster falls to 6-5 overall and 2-2 in the SLIAC, while Principia improves to 11-6 overall and 4-0 in the league. The win sealed the regular season SLIAC title for the Panthers, while Webster is the No. 3 seed in next weekend's SLIAC Tournament, which will be held at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in St. Louis. 

In Saturday's match, Principia began by posting three wins in doubles by identical 8-0 scores. It was just the fourth time this season that Webster failed to win a match in doubles. 

Meanwhile, in singles, Webster managed to win 31 points in the six matches, including having freshman Nicolas Andrade (Quito, Ecuador/Francis Howell) take his match at the No. 6 spot against Dan Wagstaff into a third-set tiebreaker. Andrade opened with a 6-2 win in the first set, while Wagstaff posted a 6-4 win in the second set and in the tiebreaker, Wagstaff held on for a 10-7 win. 

The other competitive singles match came at the No. 4 spot as Charles McGhee (Waterloo, Ill./Waterloo) battled back-and-forth with Nat Kenworthy at the No. 4 spot, before ultimately falling in straight sets (6-2, 6-4). 

At the No. 5 spot, freshman Zach Bliss (Branson, Mo./Branson) took three games off of Brady Swan as he fell 6-2, 6-1. 

In the other three matches, the Gorloks won a total of five games as they fell by identical 6-1, 6-1 scores at both No. 1 and No. 3 singles and 6-0, 6-1 at the No. 2 spot.

Webster will close out the regular season with three matches next week as they open the week with a 6 p.m. match at Fontbonne on Monday, April 16, before hosting Missouri Baptist in a 6 p.m. match on Tuesday, April 17 and then will conclude the week with an exhibition match on Wednesday, April 18 at home against Concordia Seminary at 6 p.m.