ITHACA, NY -  The injury-depleted Temple women's tennis team dropped its fourth straight match Saturday afternoon, falling 5-2 at Cornell.  The Owls are now 5-5 on the season while the Big Red improved to 4-1.

Freshman Felicia Frazier and junior Barbara Oria Boer won for the Owls at third and fifth singles.  Junior Yuri Kurashima and sophomore Sharanya Pattabi won at first doubles, 9-7.  Kurashima also dropped a hard-fought match at second singles, losing her first set in a tie-breaker to Kasia Preneta. 

Temple next plays UMBC at Penn on March 7.
 
Cornell 5, Temple 2
March 4, 2006

Singles
#1 -- Mollie Edinson (C) def. Sharanya Pattabi, 6-4, 6-2
#2 -- Kasia Preneta (C) def. Yuri Kurashima, 7-6 (9), 6-4
#3 -- Felicia Frazier (T) def. Tamara John,  6-3, 6-2
#4 -- Catherine Duboc (C) def. Eva Marsalkova, 6-1, 6-1
#5 -- Barbara Oria Boer (T) def. Elizabeth Google, 7-6, 7-6
#6 -- Shayna Miller def. Karina Collamer, 6-0, 6-0

Doubles
#1 - Pattabi/ Kurashima (T) def. Edinson/Miller, 9-7
#2 -- Liying Wang/Preneta (C) def. Frazier/ Marsalkova, 8-0
#3  - Cornell wins by default