THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 3 | Gordon 0
RECORDS: Suffolk 10-3-2 (5-2-0 CNE) | Gordon 8-5-2 (5-2-0 CNE)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Gordon nearly found the opener in the 50th minute, but a diving stop from Nathan Harlow kept the game scoreless.
• The deadlock was broken in the 59th minute as Christian Gardner played a ball down the right wing into the path of Mohamed Mehaya, who placed his pass across goal to Diego Pierantozzi, who tapped home the opener.
• Suffolk doubled up its advantage just five minutes later with a bolstering strike from Pierantozzi from outside the box that hit the crossbar and pushed into the back of the net to grab his brace.
• Suffolk secured its third goal in a ten-minute span when Matthew Belluardo intercepted a ball and headed it into the path of Maxi Fadel, who played a perfectly weighted pass to Gardner, who then chipped the keeper to secure the third goal.

KEEPING UP WITH THE KEEPERS

• Harlow stopped six shots in the contest.
• Riley Calemmo made five saves in his 69 minutes of action, while Isaiah Diaz secured one save.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Suffolk produced 18 shots compared to Gordon's 12 and held a slight edge in shots on target at 6-5.
• The blue-and-gold also held the advantage in corner opportunities at 5-3.
• Pierantozzi, Mehaya, and Dylan Trachtenberg produced four shots each, with Mehaya and Pierantozzi adding two on target apiece.

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk and Gordon met for the fifth time in series history.
• Suffolk now holds a 3-1-1 all-time advantage over Gordon.
• The Rams are 2-1-0 at East Boston Memorial Park against the Fighting Scots.
• The result marked the third shutout in the all-time series.
• All the matchups against Gordon have come in the Bill Maddock era.
• The two-goal output from Pierantozzi marked his first multi-goal game of the season and increased his point streak to four straight games.
• Mehaya picked up his sixth assist of the season.
• Gardner tallied his second strike of the season.
• Fadel secured his second assist of the campaign.

WHAT'S NEXT?

The Rams will remain at home Wednesday, Oct. 22, when Johnson & Wales stops by Eastie at 7:00 p.m.