Amherst, Mass. – The Middlebury College Panthers earned a 5-0 win over the Trinity College Bantams this afternoon in the 2010 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men's Tennis Championship Semifinals played indoors at Hampshire College.  The top-seeded and top-ranked Panthers improve to 17-2 and will face either Amherst or Williams College tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the conference tournament's title match, while the No. 5-seeded Bantams drop to 13-6 and will hope for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Middlebury, which increased its winning streak to 12 on the year, did not surrender more than four games in any doubles match. Andrew Thomson and Andrew Lee defeated Spencer Feldman (Upper Brookville, N.Y.) and Anson McCook  (Miami, Fla.) at No. 1, 8-4, while Andrew Peters and Chris Mason took care of David Dessau (New York, N.Y.) and Charles McConnell (New York, N.Y.) by the same score at No. 3. In the No. 2 match, Conrad Olson and Eliot Jia won against Trinity's Dan Couzens (West Hartford, Conn.) and Rich Bonfiglio (Bronxville, N.Y.), 8-3.  Thomson and Peter Odell put in nearly identical scores at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, to seal the 5-0 win for Middlebury. Thomson earned a 6-2, 6-1 win over Couzens in the fourth match, with Odell defeating McConnell in the fifth, 6-2, 6-2. 

MATCH RESULTS
Singles
1. DNF
2. DNF
3. DNF
4. M- Andrew Thomson d. Dan Couzens, 6-2, 6-1
5. M- Peter Odell d. Charles McConnell, 6-2, 6-2
6. DNF
Doubles
1. M- Thomson/Andrew Lee d. Spencer Feldman/Anson McCook, 8-4
2. M- Conrad Olson/Eliot Jia d. Ricj Bonfiglio/Couzens, 8-3
3. M- Andrew Peters/Chris Mason d. David Dessau/McConnell, 8-4
Middlebury 5, Trinity (Conn.) 0