The Arizona women's tennis team traveled to Los Angeles this weekend in hopes of shaking up the Pacific 10 Conference.

However, its goal of pulling an upset over No. 11 UCLA or No. 15 Southern California was not realized.

The Wildcats (4-1 overall, 1-1 Pac-10) were overmatched, losing both matches 1-6.

The weekend started out on a promising note as UA won the doubles portion of the match against USC, but it was downhill from there.

The Trojans swept the six single matches to earn the victory.

"I was confident heading into the USC match that we could win," Arizona head coach Vicky Maes said. "We played them tough in the doubles and we were fired up when we won the first point. But we came out in the singles matches flat. We did not bring the fight needed to win and USC took advantage of that. USC didn't let up and that was the difference."

After the match against the Trojans, Maes talked to the team and said Arizona was confident going into its match with UCLA.

Confident they were, but victorious they weren't.

The Bruins jumped on the Wildcats early by winning the doubles point and they never looked back.

Even though the final score against the Bruins was 1-6, Maes said that Arizona played a lot better and that it is unfortunate that the score doesn't show that.

"I talked to the team before the UCLA match and we put in a good fight," Maes said. "The score doesn't show how hard we played. UCLA is a very tough team and we played them that way. When they come to Tucson I think we will be ready for them."

UA freshman Maja Mlakar, ranked No. 27 in the nation, finally met her match as she lost both of her matches over the weekend.

"Maja is a great player and she will bounce back," Maes said. "We already lost both matches while Maja was playing and it is tough to keep going. She is a young player and she has never been in that situation before."

UA sophomore Debbie Larocque said that playing against UCLA and USC was a good experience because the Wildcats need to gain confidence playing against the nation's top teams.

"We played an up-and-down match against USC," Larocque said. "Against UCLA we all gave 100 percent and that is the level that we need to play at to beat the best teams. We have not played against top-level opponents and this weekend was a good experience for us."