Women's Tennis | 10/24/2014 11:00:00 AM

DETROIT – The Wayne State University women's tennis team (12-0  GLIAC) is seeded No. 1 at the 2014 GLIAC  Tournament beginning tonight and finishing on Sunday at the Midland Community Tennis Center in Midland, Mich.

The Warriors will open this year's tournament against eighth-seeded Saginaw Valley State at 6:45 p.m. on Friday evening. The two teams recently played each other on Oct. 18th with WSU coming away with an 8-1 victory over the visiting Cardinals.

The winner of the No. 1 / No. 8 match will take on the winner of No. 4 Tiffin / No. 5 Ferris State contest in the second round of the tournament. Wayne State won a 5-4 decision over Tiffin on Sept. 14th and shut out Ferris State 9-0 at its first home match of the season on Sept. 20th.  

WSU was seeded No. 2 during the 2013 tournament and made it to the championship round for the first time in program's history losing to Northwood 5-2. Later in the year they went on to defeat the Timberwolves 5-3 in the NCAA Regional Tournament. With the Warriors heading into the tournament undefeated for the season, they're hoping to make it to the championship round again.

Round two action will begin on Saturday at 3:45 p.m., while the tournament concludes on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. All the information on the tournament, including schedule, bracket and travel information, can be found at the main tournament page linked above.