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Janice Lam was one of three seniors playing in their final regular-season home match
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MEDFORD - The third-ranked Middlebury College Panthers earned a 7-2 NESCAC victory at #20 Tufts in a match played on Sunday afternoon.
A #1 doubles victory by senior Lauren Hollender (Newton, MA) and junior Shelci Bowman (Dallas, TX), 8-6, had Tufts trailing 2-1 entering singles. Of the two Middlebury doubles wins, Lauren Amos and Margot Marchese had an 8-3 win in the third match.
Middlebury wound up winning five of the six singles matches. Panther Lok Sze Leung, the #1 ranked player in the Northeast, defeated 11th-ranked Jumbo Lindsay Katz (Baltimore, MD) in a second-set tie-breaker at #1 7-6 (2). Eighth-ranked in the region Ria Gerger had a 6-3, 7-5 win for Middlebury over Tufts junior Samantha Gann (Massapequa, NY) at #2.
The Panther victories at #3 and #6 came quickly. The lone Tufts win was on a third-set super tie-breaker in fifth singles by senior co-captain Janice Lam (San Francisco, CA). Hollender and Marchese also played a super tie-breaker, which the Panther won 12-10.
It was Seniors Day for Tufts, as Hollender, Katz, and Lam played in the final regular-season home match of their careers.
The Jumbos, now 6-7 overall and 3-3 in NESCAC, play a key conference match at Trinity on Thursday at 4 pm. Middlebury plays out of conference next with a Saturday match at home against Skidmore beginning at 1 pm.
Match results
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