ANNVILLE, Pa. – Zach Schrader and Jake Erb both won twice for the Lebanon Valley Men's Tennis team on Wednesday afternoon in a tough 4-3 defeat to visiting Messiah University at the Shankroff Tennis Center.
 
The Falcons (3-4) won two of the three doubles to win the doubles point to start the match. The Dutchmen (3-8) came away with a victory at number one doubles by Schrader and Erb. The teams then split the six singles matches with LVC coming away with victories on courts one, two, and four.
 
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• Erb and Schrader handed Messiah's top doubles team their first loss of the year with a 6-4 victory. The duo improved to 2-3 when playing together.
• Erb was the first singles court to finish at number two as he won his third match of the year 6-2, 6-4.
• Schrader earned a big 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) victory at number one singles over Chase Wilson who has been one of the top players in the MAC Commonwealth the past few years.
• Colin Brusse won a first set tiebreaker and then cruised in the second set for a 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 win at number four. He evened his singled record up at 5-5 on the season with the victory.

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LVC will head to the nation's capital on Sunday for a 1 p.m. match against Catholic University.

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