ELLINWOOD – A couple days after breaking through and winning close matches on the way to its first dual win of the season, the Barton men’s tennis team was back to its old habits against Bethel College.The Cougars lost the close matches and thus the dual as the Thrashers won 6-3.Barton lost a pair of close singles matches that could have flipped the outcome to the Cougars favor.“We played pretty well today, but, once again we couldn’t win the tight matches,” Barton coach Lyle Stickney said. “We lost two very competitive matches that went to tiebreaks and that was the difference in the dual.”But just as importantly, Barton was swept in the doubles matches. The Cougars ended up splitting the six singles matches but couldn’t pick up a win in doubles.Lucas Castelani, Ray Strunk and Cole Hardin all picked up wins in singles.Castelani earned the win at No.