The Bowling Green tennis team knows this weekend will be a lot tougher than last weekend.

A week ago, the Falcons rolled past Youngstown State and Wright State in their first duel meets of the spring season.

Even with great results on paper, the weekend wasn’t what the Falcons were looking for, as they struggled against teams they should’ve handled easily. If BG does that this weekend, they may find themselves losing on the road to Michigan State.

“[Michigan State] is a very good, very strong Big 10 team,” BG head coach Penny Dean. “This is like a good MAC team.”

For the Falcons, it will be a matter of improving on last week’s showing. Dean feels this week’s preparations should be just what the doctor ordered for her team.

“We had some good practices,” she said. “People should be focused. They knew they had some things to work on.”

A focus for the Falcons last weekend was not tiring mentally. This week, the team found their physical endurance to be solid as the team had a good week of lifting and conditioning.

The team will have to be on top of their game to go into East Lansing to take out the Spartans. But the two teams have some history this season. Both Michigan State and BG were at the Wolverine Invitational this season and the Falcons got the best of the Spartans.

Neither team got a chance to flex their muscles in the doubles events, but BG was able to dominate in the singles flights.

Susie Schoenberger was the lone Falcon to lose to a Michigan State player, as she dropped her match to Christine Bader 6-1, 2-6, 10-7.

Aside from that match, BG was perfect against Michigan State as Heidi Romer, Laura Kokinda, Jenna Nussbaum and Erica Wolfe each scored wins over Michigan State.

BG is hoping to duplicate those results this weekend.

“Every spot will be challenging for us,” Dean said. “But they will be winnable for us if we come ready to play.”

The Falcons will storm the courts at East Lansing at 10 a.m. tomorrow.