STATE UNIVERSITY, Ark. - Southeast Missouri Tennis (5-6) falls 4-1 against the Arkansas State Red Wolves (6-3) Friday night at the A-State indoor tennis facility. 

To start the match A-State captured the doubles point and won all three matches during doubles play.

Maja Bajorek and Mia Mayerova made their first appearance of the year on court one. They ended up falling 6-2 against Anna Grigoreva and Hanmare Mcaslin. 

The Red Wolves then defeated the Redhawks 6-3 on court two and three. Lera Valeeva and Kristina Kozakova lost against Lilly Cvanciger and Abigail Thurmer at No. 2. Juliette Demunck and Yontha Tadoum fell to Sarah Millard and Carla Castellvi.

In singles action, the A-State won three out of four singles matches to clinch the match.

Arkansas State captured their second point of the contest on court two. Bajorek fell in straight sets at No. 2 to Cvanciger 6-0, 6-2. On court one Valeeva had a 3-set battle against Grigoreva. Valeeva ran away with the first set 6-1, fell 6-2 in set 2, then barely lost set three 6-4.

Tadoum won in straight sets to score the Redhawks lone point in the match. After starting set 1 down 0-3, Tadoum fought back and tied the set at 4-4. After some long rallies and back and forth action Tadoum won set 1, 7-5. Set two went even further and Tadoum won 7-6 after some great back and forth battles against Millard.

At the number four position, Mcaslin clinched the match for the Red Wolves defeating Demunck in straight sets 6-4, 6-1. Mayerova went unfinished 3-4 on court five and Kozakova went unfinished at 1-1 on court six.  

Arkansas State is a totally new team execpt for their No. 1 and Coach Brooks was very impressed and said they were a very good team. "Matches in 3 court factilites are always tough to win if you don't win the doubles point but I thought we played well," Coach Brooks said.  

About the Redhawks match, Coach Brooks ahd this to say, "In the middle of Lera's third set it was looking like we could pull it off. With Yontha winning her match, if Lera then wins, it comes down to who can execute under pressure. I like the Redhawks chances in that situation. Tomorrow is another tough match vs an SEC team. One day better!"

The Redhawks will be back on the road again tomorrow as they travel to Columbia, Mo to face the University of Missouri at the Mizzou tennis complex. The match is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m., CT.