After a solid performance to open its season, the Penn State men's tennis team had some things to work out before its next match.

The No. 61 Nittany Lions (2-0) were slated to head back to the courts of the Penn State Indoor Tennis Center at 5 p.m. Saturday, after defeating St. Bonaventure 7-0 in the morning.

Then the Lions got an earlier chance to improve, as their afternoon match against Bloomsburg was pushed forward to 3 p.m.

Even while playing in what amounted to back-to-back matches, the Lions came ready to play, shutting down Bloomsburg and taking every set of every match in a 7-0 sweep.

"The guys did a nice job responding in the second match," Penn State head coach Bill Potoczny said. "In the first match I thought there were some good things, but also some things the guys needed to work on. In the second match they just made the adjustments on some of the things they need to improve."

From the standpoint of the scorecard, the only improvements the Lions could really have made were in doubles. Although they captured the doubles point in both contests, the No. 2 pairing of Malcolm Scatliffe and Michael James dropped their doubles eight-game pro-set in a tiebreaker, losing 9-8 to St. Bonaventure's Andrew Hart and Dejon Stankovic.

In the day's second contest, there would be no letdowns. The Lions swept the doubles point easily, giving up only six total games. Scatliffe and James paired together again, but that time at the No. 1 doubles slot, handling Bloomsburg's top pair by a score of 8-3.

With two winnable matches, Potoczny could make the decision to keep anyone from playing more than four total matches and to work all 10 of his players into the lineup. That let him give his nonstarters some match experience. One of those players who stepped up in a big way was freshman Brendan Lynch.

Lynch played No. 6 singles against the Bonnies and then in the No. 4 singles spot against Bloomsburg. In both matches, Lynch dominated, sweeping both opponents 6-0, 6-0.

"To play two matches like that, it doesn't matter who you're playing, you're doing an outstanding job," Potoczny said. "He's doing great in practice and on the court. The thing about Brendan is he's not just making us better on match day, he's making us better every day in practice."

Lineup switches, a marathon day of tennis and an unexpected early start time were all factors the Lions chalked up to experience from their first action of the year. With a Wednesday night match against Bucknell coming this week, the team will have a short time to prepare, but even that can be looked at as a positive.

"It was tough -- it was a good way to test our conditioning," junior Ryan Berger said. "We're going to have long matches during the season that go five or six hours. Back-to-back matches like this give us good practice for what we're going to see down the road."