PELLA, Iowa—The Prairie Fire men's tennis team returned to action on Saturday at Central.

Knox (0-4) dropped a pair of matches to Central and Concordia (Neb.), falling 0-9 in both matches.

Jared Schwarz and Minh Le lost their singles matches by narrow margins in the #1 and #2 slots against Central. They flip-flopped places for the match with Concordia and again lost in close matches. Schwarz teamed up with Ganesh Uppalapu to lose a close doubles matchup as well. Matt Bailey also fell in a close match at #6 singles.

The Prairie Fire will return home on February 24 to host St. Ambrose and Greenville.