Match Results

In their Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) opener against Wentworth Institute of Technology at the Bass River Tennis Club in Beverly, Mass. today, the Fighting Scots were outpaced by the guest Leopards, 7-2, to drop to 2-5 overall (0-1 CCC) on the year. Wentworth improves to 2-0 (1-0 CCC) with the win.

The Scots found themselves at a deficit early as Wentworth opened the day with a clean sweep in doubles action. Juan Rodriguez (Sr./Quito, Ecuador) and Dave Filar (Sr./Wolcott, Conn.) teamed up to best Gordon's No. 1 team of Zach Hall (Fr./Sugarland, Texas) and Kenny Gaudio (Jr./Miller Place, N.Y.), 8-6, while James Drum (Fr./Madison, Conn.) and Sean Murray (Fr./North Brookfield, Mass.) did the same at No. 2 with an 8-4 victory over Brandon Inkles (Sr./New York, N.Y.) and Richie Armand (Fr./Hempstead, N.Y.). Despite a hard-fought effort at No. 3, Gordon's Joe Daugherty (Fr./Norfolk, Va.) and Mike Olszak (So./Danvers, Mass.) could not come up with the tiebreaker win, ceding defeat to the Leopards' Andy Chen (Jr./New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Tim Nguyen (Sr./Windsor, Conn.) (9-8, (7-3)) to leave the Scots winless heading into singles play.

Individual action proved equally as close as Rodriguez battled Hall for a three-set tiebreaker win at No. 1 (6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7)), Filar pulled out another three-set win at No. 3 over Gordon's Inkles (6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5)), and Murray took the back two sets off Olszak for the overall win at No. 6 (3-6, 6-2, 6-2).

Gaudio and Daugherty registered the Scots' lone wins of the day at No. 2 and No. 5, respectively, with Gaudio taking a 6-4, 6-4 victory from Drum and Daughtery recording a 6-4, 6-2 decision over Nguyen.

The Scots return to the court on Monday, March 25 as they travel to nearby Salem State for a 3:30 p.m. non-conference start. Wentworth returns to conference action against Curry on Wednesday, March 27 at 3:30 p.m.