NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. – The Niagara men’s tennis team cruised to wins over RIT and MAAC foe Rider on Saturday in their first dual matches of the season.

NU (2-0, 1-0 MAAC) made quick work of the RIT Tigers (1-3) with a 7-0 win. The Purple Eagles didn’t drop a set in singles and had little trouble winning the doubles point.

The Purple Eagles were even more dominant later in the day against Rider (1-4, 0-2 MAAC) in their first conference match of the season. From one to five singles, Niagara only lost three games with Brandon Gallegos and Mathieu Lacasse winning their respective matches 6-0, 6-0. NU’s lone lost came in six singles in super tiebreaker.

Niagara University 7, RIT 0
Singles competition
1. Raymond, David (NIA) def. Chandler Daub (RIT) 6-0, 6-0
2. Dufour-Coursol, O. (NIA) def. Neville Bilimoria (RIT) 6-1, 6-2
3. Schwojer, Lorenz (NIA) def. Will Abisalih (RIT) 6-1, 6-0
4. Gallegos, Brandon (NIA) def. Amos Baptiste (RIT) 6-0, 6-1
5. Lacasse, Mathieu (NIA) def. Kevin Layer (RIT) 6-1, 6-0
6. Bojanowski, Matt (NIA) def. Mark Gonzalez (RIT) 6-4, 7-5

Doubles competition
1. Raymond, David/Dufour-Coursol, O. (NIA) def. Neville Bilimoria/Kevin Layer (RIT) 8-1
2. Lacasse, Mathieu/Schwojer, Lorenz (NIA) def. Chandler Daub/Will Abisalih (RIT) 8-2
3. Gallegos, Brandon/Bojanowski, Matt (NIA) def. Jake Stocker/Ken Chou (RIT) 8-3

Niagara University 6, Rider University 1
Singles competition
1. Raymond, David (NIA) def. Malfitano, Rollie (RID-M) 6-0, 6-1
2. Dufour-Coursol, O. (NIA) def. Milosovici, Milo (RID-M) 6-0, 6-1
3. Schwojer, Lorenz (NIA) def. Laverty, Drew (RID-M) 6-1, 6-0
4. Gallegos, Brandon (NIA) def. Spellman, John (RID-M) 6-0, 6-0
5. Lacasse, Mathieu (NIA) def. Carpenter, Ryan (RID-M) 6-0, 6-0
6. Gershon, Mike (RID-M) def. Mucci, Mike (NIA) 6-1, 1-6, 12-10

Doubles competition
1. Raymond, David/Dufour-Coursol, O. (NIA) def. Malfitano, Rollie/Lubold, Nick (RID-M) 8-1
2. Lacasse, Mathieu/Schwojer, Lorenz (NIA) def. DiMartino, Matt/Laverty, Drew (RID-M) 8-2
3. Gallegos, Brandon/Bojanowski, Matt (NIA) def. Milosovici, Milo/Carpenter, Ryan (RID-M) 8-2