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Men's Tennis

Middlebury deals 8-1 defeat to Ephs

MIDDLEBURY, VT. – Sixth-ranked Middlebury (16-2, 8-0), dealt seventh-ranked Williams (10-4, 5-2) a crushing 8-1 blow this afternoon.  Despite having won their last four straight matches, the Ephs' momentum came to a halt as the Panthers, riding an impressive seven match win streak heading into today's contest, used a 3-0 doubles advantage to cruise through singles play. 

Falling 3-0 to a top-ten team has always proven to be a difficult match to win in singles, and today was no exception.  Jeremy Weinberger and Kevin Shallcross suffered only their second loss of the season in an 8-3 loss to Conrad Olsen and Andrew Peters.  The top two doubles pairs of Bret Thacher and Dicken Chaplin, and Nick Lebedoff and Will Petrie, came out on the bottom end of close 8-6 matches.

Middlebury took two matches in straight sets quickly to take the match.  Rick Devlin fell at court three to Andrew lee, 6-1, 6-3, while Kevin Shallcross dropped only his second match of the season at court five at the hands of Peter Odell, 6-2, 6-2.  

Nick Lebedoff, coming off a thrilling match over Trinity's Spencer Feldman on Sunday, may have run out of steam, falling in two to Conrad Olsen, 6-2, 7-5.  The remaining three matches concluded with third set super tiebreakers.  Weinberger tallied the lone point of the day for the Ephs with a 10-5 win in the third.  Petrie rallied to take a 6-1 second set at court four, and fell by a narrow 12-10 margin.  Furmaga also stormed back in the second set, and couldn't continue his success in the breaker, losing 10-7.

The Ephs will look to rebound in their final match of the regular season at Hamilton tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.

Middlebury 8, Williams 1

Doubles
1) David Farah/Andrew Thomson (M) def. Bret Thacher/Dicken Chaplin (W) --- 8-6
2) Andrew Lee/Rich Bonfiglia (M) def. Nick Lebedoff/Will Petrie (W) --- 8-6
3) Conrad Olsen/Andrew Peters (M) def. Jeremy Weinberger/Kevin Shallcross (W) --- 8-3

Singles
1) Olsen (M) def. Lebedoff (W) --- 6-2, 7-5
2) Weinberger (W) def. Thomson (M) --- 5-7, 7-5, 10-5
3) Lee (M) def. Rick Devlin (W) --- 6-1, 6-3
4) Peters (M) def. Petrie (W) --- 6-4, 1-6,  12-10
5) Peter Odell (M) def. Kevin Shallcross (W) --- 6-2, 6-2
6) Derrick Angle (M) def. Karol Furmaga (W) --- 6-4, 1-6, 10-7

 

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