WATERVILLE, Maine - The Colby College Mules came out on top in a tightly-contested match against the visiting Trinity College Bantams, taking three singles matches on tiebreakers to win, 8-1, in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's tennis action this afternoon.  Trinity falls to 4-5 overall and 1-3 in the NESCAC, while No. 24-ranked Colby improves to 7-3 overall and 3-1 in the league.  The Bantams visit conference rival Hamilton on Saturday at 10 a.m. in their next match.

Trinity took one of three doubles points when sophomore Eduardo Sanchez-Carrion (Lima, Peru) and first-year Pierce Rutledge (Chicago, Ill.) outlasted their Mule opponents, 8-7, with a 7-5 win in the tiebreaker.  At first singles, Trinity senior captain Ross DeRose (Buffalo, N.Y.) took the second set against Colby's top player, Jan Wenger, but lost in the clincher, 10-6.  Bantam sophomore Henry Bilicic (Del Mar, Calif.) won the first set versus Joey Barrett, 6-3, but dropped the second, 6-1, and lost, 10-7, in the tiebreaker at second singles.  Senior captain Dylan Powell (Warwick, Bermuda) also took his opponent to a tiebreaker with a 6-4 win in the opening set, but the Mules won the other three singles matches in straight sets.

MATCH RESULTS
Doubles
1. C- J. Barrett/J. Cohen d. Ross DeRose/Dylan Powell, 8-4
2. C- S. Henry/M. Schuermann d. Henry Bilicic/Jack Ginter, 8-3
3. TC- Pierce Rutledge/Eduardo Sanchez-Carrion, 8-7 (7-5)
Singles
1. C- J. Wenger d. DeRose, 6-4, 3-6, (10-6)
2. C- Barrett d. Bilicic, 3-6, 6-1 (10-7)
3. C- Cohen d. Sanchez-Carrion, 6-2, 6-0
4. C- Schuermann d. Ginter, 6-4, 6-0
5. C- Henry d. Charles Kilborn, 6-0, 6-4
6. C- B. Powis d. Powell, 4-6, 7-5 (10-0)
Colby 8, Trinity (Conn.) 1