BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer
header-image-bears

Men's Tennis Drops 8-1 Decision to Suffolk

Men's Tennis Drops 8-1 Decision to Suffolk

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Suffolk University Men's Tennis team defeated the Bridgewater State University Bears in non-league action, 8-1, on Thursday evening at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols in Cambridge.

Suffolk opened the contest sweeping all three doubles matches while they also took five of six singles games to move to a 4-1 overall record on the season. Bridgewater slips to 0-5 with the setback.

Junior Andrew Narciso (East Bridgewater, Mass.) picked up the Bears' lone match point of the evening as he was victorious in the sixth singles flight. Narcisco won in a third set tiebreaker coming away with a 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 victory.

Four players earned multiple wins on the evening for Suffolk.

Senior Marc Winkler (Caracas, Venezuela) and junior Calixto Romero (Lima, Peru) improved to a perfect 5-0 record on the year as a tandem taking the top doubles game by an 8-2 score.

Both Winkler and Romero took their individual games.

Winkler posted a 6-2, 6-1 singles win at the top flight while Romero also won in straight sets at the second spot, 6-2, 6-2.

Freshman Alsono Vela (Chelsea, Mass.) and sophomore Francesco Saia (Wakefield, Mass.) also earned multiple wins on the evening for Suffolk.

Vela and Saia partnered for an 8-0 victory in the second doubles game. Vela was also a winner in the third singles flight, 6-3, 6-1, while Saia took the fourth singles contest, 6-0, 6-0).

Freshman Anton Boubnov (St. Louis, Mo.) won Suffolk's fifth singles contest, 6-3, 6-3.

Sophomore Jacob Duggan (Sharon, Mass.) and junior Vincent Le (Wilmington, Mass.) rounded out the card for Suffolk as they won the third doubles match by a score of 8-6.

The Bears will be back in action on Saturday afternoon when they host Little East Conference foe UMass Boston at one. The Rams entertain Norwich University in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) action on Saturday at 11:00 AM.