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DAVE RIVERA UPS Dave Lerner and the Albany men's tennis team posted two straight shutouts this week following a tough loss to Amherst. Most good teams bounce back from heartbreaking losses. The Albany State men's tennis team did more than that; they made a full recovery. After losing 6-3 to Amherst this past Tuesday, which included three third-set tiebreaker defeats, the Danes snapped back with a vengeance the next two days, destroying Union on Wednesday, 9-0, and SUNY at Oneonta yesterday, 9-0. "1 guess you can say we bounced back well from the Amherst defeat," said Coach Bob Lewis, "but we're just that much belter than those teams. I wasn't too surprised." What did surprise Lewis was the unfortunate way the Danes went down to defeat against Amherst, u club that defeated the Danes 5-1 last year. Albany dropped all six of the singles matches, with the first three spots going into third set tiebreakers. "It was the kind of match that we definitely could have won if we got some breaks," said Lewis, whose team stands presently at 9-2. "We're just as good as them, it's just they won the big points In the tiebreakers. I seriously feel that if we played them 10 limes, we'd win 7 of them." First singles Barry Lcvlne suffered the most heartbreaking loss as three match points in his favor went to waste. After the two split the first two sets, Lcvlne, who has been trying to break out of a bad slump, went up 6-5 in games with a 40-Lovc lead. Lcvinc was unable to put his opponent Fred Shcpphard away. Shepphard turned things around to lake the game and tic at 6-6. His momentum carried him to a 8-6 tiebreaker win. "I've been in a bad slump, and it's hard to feel great confidence even in the position of having match points. I've been really under the gun of late trying to get out of it (the slump). I guess it's just extra lough when you're not winning," Lcvinc said. Third singles Fred Gabcr and no. 2 singles Dave Ulrich also went down In third set tiebreakers. In Gaber's match, he was able lo survive five match points before he went down lo defeat. "I just came up a bit short," said the senior captain. "I played well in the first set but seemed lo lose some confidence as the match progressed. It's really disappointing losing the way we did." Whether Ihc Danes took out their disappointment the next two days is unknown, but Ihey sure didn't show signs of letting the tough loss affect them. The 9-0 romp over Union was a meet that had been rescheduled twice because of weather. "Union hasn't been very competitive lately," said Lewis. "We went in hoping to shut Ihem out and we did." The same held true for SUNY at Oneonla yesterday, except Lewis did some shuffling. Four out of six singles spots were filled by freshmen. This gave Lewis tfic opportunity lo give Lcvinc, Lawrence, Elchen, and Rob Karen the day off. It also gave valuable experience to the freshmen players that will be needed next season.