Box Score EWING, N.J. – The TCNJ men's tennis team bounced back from its first loss of the spring with a hard-earned 5-4 victory at Salisbury on Sunday afternoon.

The Lions took two of three hard-fought doubles tilts before taking the first three completed singles courts to clinch it and render moot a three-match closing run for the Sea Gulls.

Harrison Maitland-Carter, Matthew Michibata, and Alberto Thomas were all double winners for TCNJ (5-1).

Michibata and Maitland-Carter drew first blood with an 8-5 defeat of Gianluca Beaujon and Mitchell Desman at No. 1 doubles. Jacob Quijano and Thomas doubled the advantage with an 8-5 victory against Jacob Berg and Aron Bursztyn at No. 3.

The Sea Gulls (4-2) got on the board with a win at No. 2 doubles, but it was all Lions in the early part of singles play.

Maitland-Carter held off Russell Willenborg in the second set for a 6-1, 6-4 decision at No. 3 singles. Michibata was not far behind with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Beaujon on the top court, extending TCNJ's match lead to 4-1.

Thomas proceeded to seal the match by downing Christopher Catan 6-4, 6-0 at No. 4 singles. The rookie's clinching win proved pivotal as Salisbury pulled out third-set super breakers on courts 2, 5, and 6.

Derek Jordan's match at No. 5 singles was particularly even. He traded tiebreakers in the first two sets with Bursztyn, taking second-set breaker, 7-3, to force a super that his Sea Gull counterpart took by a 10-6 margin.

Brett Schuster rallied from a set down at No. 6, forcing a super breaker with a 7-5 decision in the second set before Gavin Reagle escaped with a 10-8 victory in the decisive 10-point frame.

The Lions take nearly two weeks off before welcoming NYU to Ewing on March 25.