EAST BOSTON – Suffolk men's hockey fell in its season opener as Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) counterpart blanked the Rams, 3-0, Friday night at Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 0 | Salve Regina 3
RECORDS: Suffolk (0-1-0, 0-1-0 CCC) | Salve Regina (1-0-0, 1-0-0 CCC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Salve Regina poured in all three goals over the first 20 minutes. The Seahawks wasted no time to light the lamp as Hoon Kim put the visitors on the score board 58 seconds into the action. Johnny Mulera and Logan Calder assisted on the season-opening goal for SRU.  

Less than two minutes later the distance doubled in the Seahawks favor as Walter Baumann put away a feed from Dylan Price. 

The score stayed still until the 15:37 minute mark when Mulera chipped away his own goal of the night. Cayden Kraus and Josh Kroon assisted on the Seahawks third goal of the day. 

Cal Wilcox did his job the rest of the way, however, Suffolk's offense could not figure out Kohl Reddy, who turned aside every shot the Rams put on target, to keep the 3-0 decision for Salve Regina. 

NETMINDER NOTES

• Wilcox finished with 37 saves. 
• Reddy registered 31 stops.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Salve Regina outshot Suffolk, 40-31. 
• Nick Lachaine, Ryan Webb and Tyler Borys all had four shots to their credit. 
• The Seahawks held the upper hand at the face-off dot as well, 42-28. 
• Devin Lowe provided a pair of blocked shots.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk began the Shawn McEachern era. 
• Thomas Dempsey, Alex Pratt, Tyler Anastasi, Webb and Borys made their collegiate debuts. 
• Kevin Ouellette skated in a Suffolk sweater for the first time. 
• The Rams dipped to 10-12-1 in season debuts dating back to 1999. 
• The Rams pulled the curtain back on their schedule as the home team for the third consecutive campaign. 
• Suffolk moved to 7-7-0 in front of its home crowd in the first game of the season since 1999.  

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WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk and Salve Regina will meet in a rematch tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 5 at the St. George's Rink in Middletown, Rhode Island, at 7 p.m.