While one win streak ends, another continues. Thanks to a 5-2 defeat over No. 6 Cal, the Stanford women’s tennis team stretched its record to a perfect 13-0 by snapping the Bears’ five-match win streak.

No. 2 Stanford’s (13-0, 2-0 Pac-10) win was its fifth of the season over a top-10 squad, but the match wasn’t an easy one, as the Cardinal had to lean hard on the bottom of the lineup in order to secure the victory.

The Cardinal took the doubles point despite the Bears’ duo of Jana Juricova and Mari Andersson knocking off the top doubles squad of senior Hilary Barte and sophomore Mallory Burdette in an 8-6 upset. Excellent play by Nicole Ahn and Stacy Gibbs in an 8-4 victory and Carolyn McVeigh and Stacey Tan in a 8-6 win wrapped up the doubles point before Barte and Burdette’s match ended.

Juricova and Andersson also had the upper hand over Barte and Burdette in singles, with Barte withdrawing due to injury in her match against Juricova and Andersson defeating Burdette, 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (7).

Once again, though, the rest of the squad bailed out the top two players before the losses had a chance to count.

Gibbs, Ahn, Tan and McVeigh swept their matches in the three through six spots in the lineup, and because Gibbs, McVeigh and Ahn were the first three singles matches to finish, the Cardinal had already wrapped up a victory by pulling ahead 4-0 before the two late losses brought the Cardinal to its eventual 5-2 win.

The Cardinal will take a two-week break for finals, then return to Taube Tennis Stadium to face Utah on March 21 in the finale of a seven-game homestand.