ST. PAUL, Minn. - The University of Northwestern St. Paul Women's Tennis team rallied down 3-1 to take a 5-4 win over the University of Wisconsin-River Falls on Friday. The match was the first one hosted on UNW's campus in nearly two years.

Northwestern jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with an 8-2 win at the #2 doubles match by Ellie Dodge (Wahpeton, N.D./Wahpeton) and Taylar Smith (Litchfield, Minn./Litchfield). River Falls countered by winning both remaining doubles matches to go up 2-1.

The Falcons won the first singles match of the night at the #3 spot to go up 3-1. UNW needed to win four of the remaining five matches to overcome the deficit.

Northwestern started to climb back into it with a 6-0, 6-1 win by Dodge in the #4 match. Belinda Weddle (Rhinelander, Wis./Rhinelander) proceeded to tie the match at 3-3 with a 6-1, 6-2 win at the #2 contest. The Eagles then took a 4-3 lead with Taylar Smith's (Litchfield, Minn./Litchfield) 6-4, 6-2 win at #6 singles.

On the verge of winning four consecutive points to win the match, the Eagles needed Sabrina Bush (White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake) to rally for the win. The sophomore fell 6-4 in the opening set, but flipped the script with a 6-4 win in the second set. Bush battled in the super-tiebreaker, and ultimately came out on top 10-6 to give UNW the match-winning fifth point.

Next up for Northwestern is a match with Buena Vista University on Saturday, March 27, at 1pm at Lifetime Fitness in White Bear Lake.