CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- East Carolina's women's tennis team lost at Charlotte, 6-1, on Friday afternoon in a match that was closer than the final team score indicated.

The Lady Pirates (5-4) took the 49ers (4-4) down to the wire in two doubles matches and went to tie-breakers in a pair of singles matches.

In the end, only Raluca Baicu, playing at flight two singles, was able to pull out a victory as she downed Charlotte's Lindsay Morris, 6-4, 6-3.

The Lady Pirates had a chance to grab the doubles point as both Paulina Sierpinski/Kirstin Buchanan (flight two) and Cristina Meilicke and Lauren Perry (flight three) lost close matches by identical 8-6 scores.

Buchanan also played a tough, three-set match at flight three singles, falling to the 49ers' Ashleigh Murray, 5-7, 6-4, 10-5. At flight one, ECU's Lyndall Jordan took Charlotte's top player, Laura Swain, to a tie-breaker in the second set before falling, 6-0, 7-6 (3).

ECU will face South Florida, another Conference USA foe, on Saturday in Charlotte. That match is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

Charlotte 6, ECU 1

Singles
1. Laura Swain (C) def. Lyndall Jordan (ECU), 6-0, 7-6 (3)
2. Raluca Baicu (ECU) def. Lindsay Morris (C), 6-4, 6-3
3 Ashleigh Murray (C) def. Kirstin Buchanan (ECU), 5-7, 6-4, 10-5
4. Marilyn Clark (C) def. Paulina Sierpinski (ECU), 6-1, 6-0
5. Megan Bullins (C) def. Cristina Meilicke (ECU), 6-0, 6-1
6. Jennifer Hatch (C) def. Lauren Perry (ECU), 6-0, 6-1
-- Courtney Clifford (C) def. Lindsay Wood (ECU), 8-1

Doubles
1. Murray/Swain (C) def. Baicu/Jordan (ECU), 8-3
2. Clark/Morris (C) def. Sierpinski/Buchanan (ECU), 8-6
3. Clifford/Hatch (C) def. Meilicke/Perry (ECU), 8-6