Halfway through the season the women's tennis team (7-11, 1-6) began a string of road games. Eight matches later it returns home for the final two matches of the regular season against Akron (6-12, 1-6) on Friday and Buffalo (6-11, 0-7) on Saturday.
The Cardinals enter trying to end a five-match losing streak.
Head coach Kathy Bull said the team is looking to get some confidence back after the road stretch.
"I think everyone is looking forward to being back home," she said. "It's just a matter of putting things back together again for this last homestand before we go into the tournament."
Bull said the focus for the team right now is to concentrate on its level of play rather than focus on the talent level of its competition.
"Sometimes if you just look at the schedule, and you assume that you're going to [win] against this team you let your guard down," she said. "I like to think that we have about five weeks of good tennis built up in us that hasn't come out, and we want to come out."
With two matches remaining, the 7-11 Cardinals are going to finish under .500 for the first time since 2000, and this season will mark the third time in Bull's 15 years the team has finished below the .500.
Junior Melissa Roach (12-5) leads the team in singles. Sophomore Leisa Brooks (8-6) has the next best singles record. The other players who will start in singles action are sophomore Jenny Batty (7-10), sophomore Jill Wieman (9-9), junior Susan Kelley (6-12) and Alyce Zollman (4-8).
Bull said Saturday should be a great spectacle of tennis with both Ball State's tennis teams playing at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Courts at 1 p.m.
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