Williamstown, Mass. – The visiting Trinity College Bantams were beaten, 9-0, by the Williams College Ephs in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's tennis action this afternoon at Hunt Center. Trinity drops to 3-6 overall and 0-3 in the NESCAC and Williams is now 8-2 overall and 3-1 in the league. Trinity senior tri-captain
Eduardo Sanchez-Carrion (Lima, Peru) and sophomore
Pierce Rutledge (Chicago, Ill.) forced a tiebreaker at second singles and junior tri-captain
Henry Bilicic (Del Mar, Calif.) took Williams' Chase Cohen to three sets at the top of the singles ladder. Bilicic rallied back from a 6-3 loss in the opening set to take the second by the same score but was edged out, 7-5, in the clincher. Rutledge was competitive at the bottom of the singles lineup, falling, 7-6, 7-5, to Andrew Chong of the Ephs.
MATCH RESULTS
Doubles
1) W- Cohen/Kandel d.
Henry Bilicic/
Jack Ginter 8-3
2) W- Amin/Chen d.
Eduardo Sanchez-Carrion/
Pierce Rutledge, 8-7(1)
3) W- Berdia/Volkema d.
Kartik Erodula/
Brandon Felcher, 6-1
Singles
1) W- Cohen (WIL) def. Bilicic, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
2) W- Kandel (WIL) def. Sanchez-Carrion, 6-1, 6-2
3) W- Chen (WIL) def. Ginter, 6-2, 6-0
4) W- Berdia (WIL) def. Felcher, 6-1, 7-5
5) W- Volkema (WIL) def. Erodula, 6-2, 6-2
6) W- Chong (WIL) def. Rutledge, 7-6, 7-5
Williams 9, Trinity 0