AUSTIN, Texas – Heading into its first home match of the season on Sunday the Texas A&M-Kingsville women's tennis team suffered an 8-1 defeat to No. 35 Northeastern State in Austin on Saturday.

Kingsville will host nationally-ranked Cameron at 1 p.m. at Bishop High School.

Tabata Lua claimed the Javelinas lone point with a win at No. 3 singles. Lua won the opening set 6-1 before dropping set two 6-3. She came back to win the third-set tiebreaker 10-8.

Mariaxi Herrera also went three sets dropping a heartbreaker at No. 1 to Valeriia Efimenko. Herrera won the opening set 6-2, but fell 7-6 in set two dropping the tiebreaker 7-3. The third set went 10-4 in favor of NSU.

Marija Dimitrovska nearly went three sets dropping a 7-5 first in No. 2 singles. She could not rebound falling 6-0 in the second set.

Kingsville did not win more than three games in a doubles match.

The Javelinas are now 1-8, while Northeastern is 8-4.

#35 Northeastern State 8, Texas A&M-Kingsville 1

Singles Competition
1. Valeriia Efimenko (NSU) def. Mariaxi Herrera (TAMUK) 2-6, 7-6 (7-3), 1-0 (10-4)
2. Martina Bruzikova (NSU) def. Marija Dimitrovska (TAMUK) 7-5, 6-0
3. Tabata Lua Cervantes (TAMUK) def. Houda Bellamine (NSU) 6-1, 3-6, 1-0 (10-8)
4. Barbora Jirickova (NSU) def. Eleni Anastasova (TAMUK) 6-0, 6-0
5. Lucia Cerchlanova (NSU) Alexandra Carrillo (TAMUK) 6-1, 6-1
6. Maria Lodge (NSU) def. Ashlea Rosenbaum (TAMUK) 6-2, 6-0

Doubles Competition
1. Valeriia Efimenko Martina Bruzikova (NSU) def. Mariaxi Herrera/Marija Dimitrovska (TAMUK) 8-3
2. Kristina Savchenkov/Barbora Jirickova (NSU) def. Tabata Lua Cervantes/Ashlea Rosenbaum (TAMUK) 8-3
3. Houda Bellamine /Maria Lodge (NSU) def. Eleni Anastasova/Alexandra Carrillo (TAMUK) 8-1