Tennis Falcons Host BGSU Invitational this Weekend

Friday, September 19

Bowling Green, OH

9:00 AM

Bowling Green State University

BGSU Invitational

September 18, 2014 | Women's Tennis

Two-day, eight-team tourney begins Friday morning

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

29843 — Sophomore Brittany Plaszewski & the Falcons
host the BGSU Invitational this Friday & Saturday

The Bowling Green State University tennis team will play in front of the home crowd for the only time this fall, as the Falcons of head coach Olga Elkin host the BGSU Invitational this weekend. The tournament will be held on Friday and Saturday (Sept. 19-20), with play beginning at 9:00 a.m. each day.

PDF LINKS
BGSU Invitational Programs/Draw Sheets
BGSU Invitational Program | BGSU Tennis 2014-15 Stats

Matches will be held at Keefe Courts on the BGSU campus as well as at Bowling Green High School. In the event of inclement weather, the tourney would be moved indoors to the Perrysburg Tennis Center.

Eight teams will participate in the tourney. In addition to the Falcons, schools taking part in the BGSU Invitational include Cincinnati, Cleveland State, Detroit, IPFW, Toledo, UIC and Youngstown State. There will be seven singles flights and four doubles flights. Overall team scores will not be kept, but flight champions will be crowned.

"Home tournaments are always fun," said Elkin, in her first year at the helm of the Falcons. "We will get a lot of tennis in, and we hope to play with high energy. We're looking forward to getting a chance to play in front of the home fans this weekend.

"Everyone gets a chance to play three singles and three doubles matches. That's a lot of tennis in one weekend, and a great chance to gain some valuable experience."

Competitors will play one round of doubles on Friday morning, followed by two rounds of singles. On Saturday, the final two rounds of doubles will be held, with the last round of singles closing out the tourney.

Elkin's youthful roster features four freshmen, three sophomores and one junior. Drew Fillis is the lone member of the program who has been part of the team for more than 13 months. Fillis is joined by sophs Hannah Drayton, Harley Hutchison and Brittany Plaszewski. The freshman class consists of Madison Adams, Meili Martin, Megan Miller and Emily Witt.

Last weekend, the Falcons opened the 2014-15 season at the Miami Invitational in Oxford, Ohio. Adams, Martin and Miller each picked up the first wins of their collegiate careers during the two-day tournament (Sept. 12-13).

"We didn't quite get all of the results that we wanted last weekend, but the girls played well," said Elkin. "The effort was amazing, their attitudes were great, and if we keep doing the little things correctly, the results will come. We saw a lot of good things last weekend, and we have a lot to build on."

The complete brackets/draw sheets can be found as a PDF link near the top of the page. The opening-round singles and doubles matches for each of BGSU's competitors are as follows...

BGSU FIRST-ROUND MATCHUPS
Friday, Sept. 19 - Keefe Courts
Hutchison/Adams - vs. Burak/Lackova (Youngstown State), 9:00 a.m.
Drayton/Martin - vs. Mebuke/Zuzu (UIC), 9:00 a.m.
Madison Adams - vs. Katelyn Nguyen (Toledo), 10:00 a.m.
Harley Hutchison - vs. Kelly Poggensee-Wei (Cincinnati), 10:00 a.m.
Meili Martin - vs. Ann-Sophie Hahn (UC), 11:30 a.m.
Megan Miller - vs. Ana Stroe (YSU), 11:30 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 19 - Bowling Green H.S.
Miller/Witt - vs. Van Der Goot/Laskutova (UDM), 9:00 a.m.
Hannah Drayton - vs. Viktoria Laskutova (UDM), 10:00 a.m.
Emily Witt - vs. Nynke Van Der Goot (UDM), 10:00 a.m.
Brittany Plaszewski - vs. Sara Sherif (IPFW), 11:30 a.m.