The opportunities to get back on track are winding down for the Penn State women's tennis team.

There are only two weeks until the Big Ten Championships, and Penn State (7-9, 1-5 Big Ten) is still stuck in a four-game losing streak.

The team will compete in its last two home matches this weekend in hopes of picking up two wins and some confidence along the way. The Nittany Lions will host Iowa (13-4, 5-1 Big Ten) at 5 p.m. today, and Minnesota (4-13, 1-5 Big Ten) at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Sarni Tennis Center.

During its four-game losing skid, the team has only managed to collect four total points. Half of those points have come from freshman Lauren Holzberg. The Lions will need to find a way to believe in their own skills if they want a chance at a successful weekend.

"It's knowing and letting good be good enough, and believing that their good is going to be fine," Penn State women's tennis coach Buffy Baker said. "When that's not working, just trying not to do more than what they are capable of doing. Once they play within themselves, they put themselves in a position to do the right things, string points together, and that wins you games."

The Lions will certainly have their hands full with Iowa, which is ranked No. 33 in the country. The Hawkeyes will bring two of the top singles players in the country in junior Meg Racette and sophomore Jacqueline Lee. Racette is ranked No. 37 in the nation among singles players. Lee is on a 15-game winning streak and boasts a 16-1 spring season record.

Baker has done nothing different in practice to prepare for the Hawkeyes. There has been a little bit of an emphasis on competition, but everything else has been routine. Since last weekend only had one match instead of two, Baker wanted to use intrasquad matches to keep her players' edge sharp.

The team needs to understand that the end to this funk will come when it comes, according to Baker.

Getting frustrated and trying too hard is what Baker is attempting to avoid. For the players, however, it is hard to not get frustrated with their current slide.

"A Big Ten match, being a win or a loss, it gives you that much more happiness when you win, and that much more sadness when you lose," junior Sasha Abraham said. "Every match means a lot to us."

Penn State currently holds the No. 8 spot in the Big Ten, with only four games left on the schedule. The goal of the team at this point is to try to find a way to trust their game. That is just the cliché solution of mind over matter.

"You have to have the need to want it," Baker said. "I think they do. It's just a matter of when they don't have it to not fall off course."