NASHUA, N.H. - The regionally-ranked Saint Michael's College men's tennis team swept past Emerson College, 7-0, on Friday afternoon in the Longfellow New Hampshire Tennis & Swim Club. The Purple Knights were 10th in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region Poll.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-5), Emerson (0-5)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Jason Boucher (Bedford, N.H./Bedford), 2 wins
• Senior Connor Scott (Bellevue, Wash./Newport), 2 wins
• Senior Seb Tonini (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy), 2 wins
• Senior Josh Weiss (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Mendon), 2 wins
• Sophomore Sergio Barroso (Madrid, Spain/Colegio Montpellier), 2 wins
• First-year Simon Lundholm (Le Luc, France/CNED), 2 wins

MATCH FACTS

• The Purple Knights improved to 3-1 in a series that began in 2018.
• Boucher vaulted into sixth in program history with his 51st and 52nd career victories.
• Weiss now has 41 career wins between singles and doubles.

THE ACTION

• Boucher and Scott won in their first doubles match together this year, improving to 10-3 alongside one another in their careers, with a 6-1 win at No. 2. The duo moved into a tie for eighth in program history for the most victories by a doubles tandem.
• Barroso and Lundholm took a 6-1 win in the third spot during their initial match together to clinch the Purple Knights the doubles point.
• Tonini and Weiss nabbed their seventh all-time win, and first of the season, by a 6-3 count at No. 1.
• Five Purple Knights swept to straight-set singles victories. Scott breezed to a 6-0, 6-1 win in the sixth position, Tonini won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 4, and Barroso's 6-4, 6-0 win at No. 3 gave Saint Michael's the clinching fourth point, improving to 5-0 this year in the process.
• Boucher (6-2, 6-1) and Weiss (6-3, 6-4) claimed wins at No. 2 and 1, respectively, before Lundholm completed the action by holding on for a 6-2, 5-7, 10-5 contest decided in a third-set super tiebreaker at No. 5. Lundholm moved to 5-0 during his rookie season.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH

• March 4 at No. 3 Middlebury College, 5 p.m.
• The Panthers, whose Division III national ranking is according to the ITA, advanced to the 2022 NCAA Final Four.