WEXFORD, Pa. -- Junior Chelsea Gibson's three-set win in the No. 4 singles matches Sunday night was the winning point as the 39th-ranked Slippery Rock University women's tennis team nipped visiting West Virginia Wesleyan in a battle of NCAA Division II Atlantic Region ranked teams at the Oxford North Tennis Center.

With the team score knotted at 4-4, Gibson won the final match of the night by a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (3) score to give SRU, the No. 3 team in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional ranking, its 10th win in 13 matches this season.

Gibson won the decisive third set after trailing by a 4-2 score.

West Virginia Wesleyan, the No. 4-ranked team in the region, lost for only the fourth time in 17 matches.

Sophomore Sarah Lynch had a hand in two Rock team points as she won her No. 2 singles match and teammed with freshman Janelle Krantz to win the No. 3 doubles duel.

Seniors Laura Handy and Jessica Hilborn won the No. 1 and No. 5 singles matches, respectively, to account for the other Rock team points.

The Rock returns to the courts Tuesday for a 4 p.m. Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference interdivisional match at Shippensburg.

SRU's next home match is scheduled for April 6 against Allegheny College (4 p.m. start).

Complete results of Sunday's match were as follows:

DOUBLES
#1 --  Nicole Andreini/Anastasiya Scherbakova (WVWC) def. Laura Handy / Dunja Drmac 8-6
#2 -- Marcela Torres/Maisa Shigematsu (WVWC) def, Chelsea Gibson / Jessica Hilborn 8-4
#3 -- Janelle Krantz / Sarah Lynch (SRU def. Samantha Coral/Olga Demina 8-5

SINGLES
#1 -- Handy (SRU) def. Nicole Andreini 6-3, 6-2
#2 -- Lynch (SRU) def. Marcela Torres 6-3, 6-2
#3 -- Anastasiya Scherbakova (WVWC) def. Drmac 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-3
#4 -- Gibson (SRU) def. Samantha Coral 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5)
#5 -- Hilborn (SRU) def. Olga Demina 7-5, 6-2
#6 -- Maisa Shigematsu (WVWC) def. Casey Runyan 6-3, 7-6(5)