It was an eventful weekend for the Bowling Green tennis team as they opened the spring portion of their season, hosting two events at the Shadow Valley Tennis Club in Toledo.

They opened the weekend by walking all over Wright State in a 6-1 win Saturday and finished it out by winning their last match Sunday to take home a 4-3 victory over Youngstown State.

The Falcons were tied with the Penguins Saturday and the deciding matchup between BG’s Andrea Meister, and Youngstown’s Emily Thayer was won 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 by Meister.

“She was fantastic,” BG coach Penny Dean said. “She kept cool and was very determined. But I felt confident she would pull it out. It was a lot of pressure, and she responded well.”

But for the Falcons, the weekend wasn’t a total success.

While they did win, they didn’t necessarily play to their full potential.

“It’s successful in that we won both matches,” Dean said. “The first day we played an easier team and fought hard and the second day we didn’t fight as hard.”

But against the Penguins, Dean decided to sit senior Susie Schoenberger in order to get some new faces in the rotation.

That, and the fact that BG was in only their second day of play this season may have been the reason BG had such a difficult time with the Penguins.

But Dean sees it from a different perspective.

“Even if it was the second day for us, it was also the second day for them,” she said. “And we have to work on that.”

Even if the Falcons didn’t play their best tennis of their lives, they did have some solid performances.

In singles competition, Ashley Jakupcin dominated the top flights. She won the second flight 6-0, 6-3 Saturday and the top flight against YSU’s Karen Najbert 6-1, 6-3 to finish the weekend 2-0.

“She played well on singles both days,” Dean said. “She played some really decent players and just took it to them.”

But BG knew coming into the weekend they would be playing more as a team because their duel match season was starting. This was evident when the Falcons teamed up for doubles matches.

The Falcons won all of their doubles matches on the weekend, something that hasn’t happened in quite some time for the team.

“I was very pleased about the doubles matches,” Dean said. “I’m not sure, but I’ll be it’s been four to six years since we’ve took eight of eight doubles in two days.”

For BG, it may not have been their best weekend, but it was still pretty good.