Playing in the NCAA Doubles Tournament Quarterfinal on Friday afternoon, Middlebury men's tennis players Peter Heidrich and Palmer Campbell advanced to the semifinals following a three-set victory over Washington-St. Louis' Jeremy Bush and Ross Putterman. The grueling match was held at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio.

In the back-and-forth opening set, Bush and Putterman edged the Panther duo by a 7-6 (5) score. The second set saw a pair of comebacks. Heidrich and Campbell trailed by scores of 4-1 and 5-3 before the team was victorious in three-straight games and took a narrow 6-5 advantage. The WashU pair held serve and made it 6-6, but Campbell and Heidrich cruised in the tiebreaker by a 7-4 score.

The decisive set saw more fireworks for the team wearing blue and white. After Bush and Putterman won two of the first three games for a 2-1 edge, the Panthers rattled off five-consecutive game victories for the 6-2 triumph.

The Middlebury duo will play the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' tandem of Warren Wood and Joe Dorn on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The #2-seeded Stags' team knocked off Sam Geier and Tim Rosensteel from Kenyon in straight sets.

Saturday's semifinal contest will be a rematch of a showdown in the #1 doubles slot of Wednesday's NCAA Championoship match in which Wood and Dorn defeated Heidrich and Campbell, 8-3.