BOSTON - The Suffolk men's tennis team suffered a 9-0 setback to Eastern Nazarene in its season-opening at the ENC Tennis Courts on Friday afternoon. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 0 | Eastern Nazarene 9
RECORDS: Suffolk (0-1) | Eastern Nazarene (6-5) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
Eastern Nazarene failed to concede a single set in both doubles and singles play to keep Suffolk off the scoreboard, who was back in action for the first time in 1,065 days.  

The Lions jumped out to a 3-0 lead sweeping the doubles action of the day, and never looked back en route to spoil the Rams' season debut. 

RESULTS

DOUBLES
1 — Diego Rodriguez/Carlos Sanchez (Eastern) defeated Hasan Esrawi/Diego Hernandez-Pons (Suffolk), 8-1
2 — Carlos Gallardo/Simao Nombre (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Juan Velasquez/Dylan Katz (Suffolk), 8-1
3 — Avelino Parrondo/Diego Torres (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Haik Semerdjian/Matthew Gallego, 8-0 

SINGLES
1 — Diego Rodriguez (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Hasan Esrawi (Suffolk), 6-0, 6-0
2 — Simao Nombre (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Dylan Katz (Suffolk), 6-0, 6-0
3 — Carlos Sanchez (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Diego Hernandez-Pons (Suffolk), 6-1, 6-1
4 — Diego Torres (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Juan Velasquez (Suffolk), 6-0, 6-1
5 — Carlos Gallardo (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Ben Bricker (Suffolk), 6-1, 6-0
6 — Avelino Parrondo (Eastern Nazarene) defeated Milind Kulkarni (Suffolk) 6-0, 6-0 

ORDER OF FINISH: Singles (3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6), Doubles (1, 2, 3) 

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk played its first match in 1,065 days. 
• Scott Blanchard made his debut on the Rams' sideline as their interim head coach.
• The contest marked the first matchup with Eastern Nazarene since April 6, 2019.
• The Rams and Lions meet for the second time in program history. 
• Six Rams made their NCAA debuts in the setback: Bricker, Gallego, Hernandez-Pons, Katz, Semerdjian and Velasquez.

COMING UP
The Rams will travel for their second match in as many days tomorrow, Saturday, March 26 when they visit the Colonels of Curry at 11 a.m.