MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Danny Boussom, Josh Friesen and Hermes Flores each blanked their opponents in a singles set Wednesday as the Goshen College men's tennis team shut out Mount Vernon Nazarene University 7-0 in each team's men's tennis season and conference opener.

The Cougars took the women's match 7-0 despite Sarah Hinshaw and Hannah McCoy winning at no. 2 doubles for the Maple Leafs. Beginning this fall, the NAIA has adopted a new scoring system that makes the three doubles matches worth one point combined, so the final score was 7-0 rather than the 8-1 of the past.

GC's men won all nine positions and all 15 sets as the Cougars were unable to bring a single set any closer than 6-4. Friesen and Flores each dropped a game apiece in singles action at nos. 4 and 5 respectively while Boussom and Juan Ciudad squandered three games apiece at positions 2 and 3.

A pair of varsity debutants, Filippo Bigardi and Wesley Beck, rounded out the Maple Leaf lineup. Bigardi was a 6-4, 6-2 winner over Danny Mayotte at the top spot, while Beck won 6-4, 6-1 at no. 6.

Flores and Diego Torres won Goshen's biggest doubles triumph of the day, a 6-1 win at no. 3 doubles. The new scoring system also shortens doubles matches to a standard set, first to 6 games, rather than the old first-to-8 pro set.

The GC women took their matches to three sets at each of the top two singles positions, with freshman Hinshaw taking the second set 7-5 off Hannah Fugate at the pole position and Victoria Oakes winning her opener 6-1 against Casey Clark. Two more first-year students, Hannah McCoy and Anna Osborne, filled out the middle third of the Goshen lineup.

Oakes teamed with Osborne at the no. 1 doubles spot, while GC's upperclass duo of Ashley Arroyo and Elsie Koop Liechty rounded out the lineup in both singles and doubles.

Goshen returns to the court on Thursday for the middle match in a span of three matches in four days. GC will travel to Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, for men's and women's matches both beginning at 3 p.m. EDT.