CALIFORNIA, Pa. -- Eighth-ranked California University of Pa. won an 8-1 decision Wednesday over visiting and 44th-ranked Slippery Rock University to claim a sixth straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division championship.

Sophomore Sarah Lynch recorded the only Rock point Wednesday as she scored a 6-3, 6-7, 10-7 upset over California's Anastassiya Zherdeva, the 28th-ranked Division II singles player in the nation according to the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.

The team loss snapped a string of eight straight wins for SRU and dropped The Rock's season records to 16-4 overall, 4-1 in PSAC-West action.

California improved its record to 19-5 overall, 5-0 in division competition, and earned a first-round bye in the conference tournament.

SRU, as the PSAC-West runner-up, will host Mercyhurst in a first-round match Tuesday.

Prior to that, The Rock will host West Virginia State in a 1:30 p.m. match Thursday to close out the regular-season schedule. SRU is the No. 3 team in the latest ITA Atlantic Regional poll, while WVSU is ranked seventh,

Complete results of Wednesday's match were as follows:

SINGLES
1 -- #20 Jutta Bornefeld (C) def. Laura Handy 6-0, 6-1
2 -- Sarah Lynch (SRU) def. #28 Anastassiya Zherdeva 6-3, 6-7, 10-7
3--  #50 Alina Stanila (C) def. Dunja Drmac 6-0, 6-1
4 -- Nina Kowalski (C) def. Chelsea Gibson 6-1, 6-1
5 -- Jade Pondicas (C) def. Jessica Hilborn 6-0, 6-0
6 -- Axelle Fernandez (C) def. Casey Runyan 6-1, 6-1

D0UBLES
1 -- Bornefeld/Kowalski (C) def. Drmac/Handy 8-4
2 -- Stanila/Galina Vishnikina (C) def. Gibson/Hilborn 8-1
3 -- Pondicas/Zherdeva (C) def. Janelle Krantz/Lynch 8-4