PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The No. 35 Franklin & Marshall men's tennis team (0-2) dropped a road match to No. 17 Carnegie Mellon (4-0), 7-0, in Saturday afternoon's non-conference match. The Tartans jumped out to an early lead by winning all three doubles matches. CMU later secured the win by sweeping all six singles matches.

The duo of Nate Arnold and Samuel Donnelly battled in the No. 2 doubles match, taking the bout to the brink. However, the tandem was held off by CMU in a 7(7)-6(1) loss.

Gonzalo Gentou (No. 5) and Aaron Kwock (No. 6) kept pace with their opponents in the bottom two singles matches, however neither Diplomat could overtake their respective opponent. Gentou fell in his match, 6-4, 6-3, while Kwock was defeated 6-2, 7-5.

No. 35 Franklin & Marshall continued on the road on Saturday, facing TCNJ at 4:30 p.m.

No. 17 Carnegie Mellon 7, No. 35 Franklin & Marshall 0
Doubles
1: Diogo Tinoco/Brendan Hendrata (CMU) def. Zac Ashtiani/Luke Brodsky (F&M); 6-4
2: Raghav Jangbahadur/Akshay Joshi (CMU) def. Nate Arnold/Samuel Donnelly (F&M); 7(7)-6(1)
3: Alex Feies/Takeshi Koey (CMU) def. Ian Alonso/Gonzalo Gentou (F&M); 6-3
Singles
1: Alex Feies (CMU) def. Luke Brodsky (F&M); 6-2), 6-2
2: Diogo Tinoco (CMU) def. Zac Ashtiani (F&M); 6-2, 6-0
3: Raghav Jangbahadur (CMU) def. Samuel Donnelly (F&M); 6-2, 6-2
4: Takeshi Koey (CMU) def. Nate Arnold (F&M); 6-2, 6-1
5: Ian Miller (CMU) def. Gonzalo Gentou (F&M); 6-4, 6-3
6: Braden Chavez (CMU) def. Aaron Kwock (F&M); 6-2, 7-5