UIC will return to action with a match at Northern Illinois Sunday afternoon.

The Flames lost a tight match to North Dakota last weekend, but Hans Neufeld was heartened by the way his team competed.  "We were in a bunch of tiebreakers that could have gone the other way.  You can look at the results and say we could have won, but we still need to get better at finishing games out.  With every practice, this team is getting better," he said.

First serve from DeKalb will be at noon.  UIC's match against Chicago State, originally scheduled for Friday, has been postponed to March 21.

Flames to Watch

• Pelle Strandberg was in a tiebreaker at #1 singles against North Dakota.  He and Casey Schrader lost a tight doubles set, 7-6.
• Anthony Nguyen was up 3-0 in his singles tiebreaker before running out of steam.
• Artem Iermolov was another Flame who pushed his singles match to a decisive third set.

Scouting the Huskies

• Northern Illinois enters the weekend 7-0.  Their record includes wins over Horizon League foe Youngstown State, Creighton, and Marquette.
• Oliver Valentinsson is the MAC singles player of the week, and Mikael Vollbach and Bor Schweiger Muzar are the doubles team of the week.
• Valentinsson is 6-1 in singles play this season.  Vollbach is 7-0.
• Northern Illinois will play Cardinal Stritch in a doubleheader Saturday.