The seventh-ranked Middlebury women's tennis team prevailed in a matchup of top-15 opponents, recording a 7-2 road victory over #14 MIT (12-7) in the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble. The Panthers improve to 10-3 in dual matches, marking the 16th-straight year the program has posted a double-digit victory total. Middlebury returns to the court Sunday in a 1:00 p.m. NESCAC match at Connecticut College.

Middlebury jumped out to a 1-0 lead in doubles when Alexandra Fields and Christina Puccinelli posted an 8-2 victory at #3 over Wendi Kong and Krystal Lai. The Panther tandem of Ria Gerger and Lily Bondy doubled the visitors' lead with an 8-4 win over Elysa Kohrs and Sonya Das in the top flight.  At #2, the Engineer duo of Dora Tzeng and Kelly Zhu got the hosts on the board with a 9-7 triumph over Sadie Shackelford and Kaysee Orozco.

In singles, Bondy gave Middlebury a 3-1 lead with a 6-2, 6-1 victory against Zhu in the third flight, while Tzeng gave MIT its second point via a 6-4, 7-5 triumph over Fields in the second slot. Gerger pushed that advantage to two (4-2) with a 7-6 (6), 6-4 win in the top spot over Kohrs.

Puccinelli clinched the match for the Panthers when she defeated Das at #4 (5-7, 6-0, 6-3). Molly Paradies made it a 6-2 lead when she edged Wendi Kong in the fifth flight (7-6 (6), 6-2), while Shackelford closed the scoring with a victory over Iris Zhuang at #6 (6-4, 6-4).