WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Midwestern State welcomes Southeastern Oklahoma to the MSU Tennis Center for its home opener Saturday at 2 p.m. The Mustangs started the campaign last weekend in Kearney, Nebraska, and finished 1-2 in their three duals.

Midwestern State lost to the host — Nebraska-Kearney — in its first dual last week, 4-2, but rebounded with a 4-1 victory over MSU Denver. The Mustangs played well against a strong team from Augustana but fell, 4-2, in its final matchup of the weekend.

Alice Di Matteo and Kanaha Furutani finished 2-0 in doubles last weekend as the Mustangs won six of nine doubles matches and took all three doubles points in Kearney.

Skylar Minns finished 2-1 in doubles and scored a pair of victories in singles last week.

Minns rolled to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Merci Hood of Nebraska Kearney at No. 6 singles, and the junior from New Braunfels dismissed Margarita Chouliara of Augustana at No. 5 singles, 6-1, 6-2.

Amelia Lawson, a transfer from Towson, pulled away for a 7-5, 6-0 triumph over Isabel Heras of MSU Denver at No. 1 singles. Lawson then got the attention of 11th-ranked Florentia Hadjigeorgiou of Augustana. The fifth-year senior won the first set in a tiebreak, 8-6. Hadjigeorgiou, who played Fed Cup for Cyprus, came back to win 12 of the next 13 games and won the match.

Di Matteo, a fifth-year senior from Palermo, Italy, rallied for an impressive 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Marie Cool of MSU Denver at No. 3 singles last week. Cool won seven straight singles matches to close out the 2022 regular season.

Southeastern is expected to repeat as Great American Conference champions in 2023. Southeastern defeated Harding, 4-1, to win the GAC Championship last year and finished the season with a 20-8 record. The Savage Storm beat the top two seeds en route to their third title since joining the league in 2011.

Georgia Hosking, Chiara Matteodo, Sara Gonzalez, and Rhythm Aswal all won singles matches as the Savage Storm defeated UT Permian Basin of the Lone Star Conference last week in Plano, Texas, 4-3.

Southeastern is led by head coach Brian Nelson, who spent 11 seasons at Seminole State College, where his team was the national runner-up in 2016. The Hugo, Oklahoma, native served as the head coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2018-19 before taking the reins at Southeastern in 2019-20.

Midwestern State leads the all-time series with the Savage Storm, 22-2, but suffered a 4-3 loss in Durant, Oklahoma, last spring. Southeastern has lost its nine previous visits to the MSU Tennis Center.

The Mustangs visit Tyler Junior College next Friday at 1 p.m. before hosting Cowley College on Saturday at 9 a.m. and Collin College at 2 p.m.