The Bowling Green women’s tennis team looks to get back on track this weekend with two matches at Toledo’s Shadow Valley Tennis Club.
The Falcons will host Wright State today at 7 p.m. and Butler tomorrow at 1 p.m.
Bowling Green will look for some wins after losing two matches in a Chicago road trip last weekend. The Falcons have not won since they defeated Youngstown State on Feb. 2.
The Falcons defeated Wright State last season, 7-0, and also had the advantage of seeing Wright State in September’s BGSU Invitational. BG Coach Penny Dean expects more of the same type of play from Wright State.
“I think we should be a favorite against Wright State,” Dean said. “We beat them last year and they were at our invite in the fall and didn’t really show me a lot of difference from the year before.” The match against Butler will mark BG’s final preparation match before the team starts its Mid-American Conference schedule against Toledo next week.
Butler (3-4), along with the University of Illinois at Chicago, is at the top of the Horizon League standings. The Bulldogs fell to UIC, 6-1, earlier in the season. BG also lost to UIC, 5-2, proving that the two teams will be closely matched.
“Butler, I think we’re going to match up really close with, like we did with UIC. Even though Butler lost to UIC 6-1, I bet the matches were pretty intense. So I’m expecting that kind of competitiveness with the two of us and I think whoever wins that doubles point has an advantage,” Dean said.
“It’s not the only turning point but it’s an important weekend. Early on this week we had a little bit of frustration but now we’ve bounced back. We need to get some wins and get some confidence going.”
