BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Bellarmine women's tennis team played its first road contest of the season on Monday evening at Indiana University.  The Knights fell to the Hoosiers 4-0 and dropped to 0-3 on the young season, while IU improved to 2-0.
 
"We showed our youth today in this match," Knights Head Coach Brian Slack said.  "We hopefully learned something today against IU. They took it to us in doubles and got that early lead. I was proud of Kat, Vendy, and Lailaa today for just not going away when things didn't go their way. Those three were still on court with an opportunity to win their respective matches - Lailaa was three games away when the match was unexpectedly stopped. We will learn from today and be ready for next weekend!"

Indiana jumped ahead early, winning two of three doubles contests, while the other went unfinished.  In singles play, Lailaa Bashir was having a strong match for the Knights at no. 3 singles.  The sophomore led Indiana's Alexandra Staiculescu 6-3, 3-0, but the match went unfinished as IU completed the team victory before Bashir could close it out.
 
Mila Mejic, Lauren Lemonds, and Hu Xiaowei picked up the three singles victories at the no. 4, no. 5, and no. 6 positions to lock up the win.

Bellarmine returns to the court later this week with a pair of matches across town at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.  The Knights will take on Northern Illinois in a neutral site matchup at 1:30 p.m. on Friday before a true road match against Louisville at 5:00 p.m. on Friday evening.

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