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Captains La Barge and Frank with the runner-up plaque.
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Winner Wesleyan WESW (17-1)
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Middlebury MIDDW (14-3)
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Wesleyan WESW
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Final
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Middlebury MIDDW
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Match Recap: Women's Tennis |

#4 Middlebury Falls To #5 Wesleyan In NESCAC Championship

The #4/top-seeded Middlebury women's tennis team came up short in the NESCAC Championship on Sunday, falling to reigning champion #5/second-seeded Wesleyan 5-2. The Panthers made their sixth-straight appearance in the title tilt. 
 
HIGHLIGHTS
  • The Cardinals earned the first point of the day with an 8-1 victory in the second spot.
  • The #1 pair of Amy Delman and Sahana Raman jumped out to a 4-0 lead over Wesleyan's Sasha Gaeth and Kristina Yu and never trailed again en route to an 8-3 triumph.
  • In the third slot, Panther tandem Amanda Frank and Nathalie van der Reis fell 3-0 early. The pair battled back to cut the lead down to a pair of games on two occasions, but the deficit was too much to overcome as the Cardinals earned the 8-3 triumph to give Wesleyan a 2-1 edge heading into singles play.
  • Lulu Wu tied the match at 2-2 with a straight-set triumph (6-2, 6-0) at #3, relinquishing the fewest games of any player on the day.
  • The Cardinals increased their lead to 4-2 with a pair of two-set wins in the second and first sports, respectively.
  • The match was clinched in a hard-fought battle at #4. After falling 6-2 in the opening set, van der Reis responded with a 6-4 victory in the middle frame. Wesleyan's Yu answered with a 6-2 win to secure the title for the Cardinals by a 5-2 final score.
  • When the match was clinched, #5 Gena Huang and #6 Claudia Miller both came from behind to force a third set that went unfinished. 
NOTES
  • Middlebury and Wesleyan have now faced each other in the championship match three-consecutive seasons that the Panthers have played in, with the Cardinals winning each of those. Wesleyan was one of few teams that played in 2021 due to the pandemic and also won the limited title that year. 
  • The Cardinals' only loss of the year was at the hands of Middlebury during the regular season when the Panthers came up with a 5-4 triumph. 
  • Middlebury advanced to the championship this year by topping Colby 5-0 in quarterfinal action, before avenging its only regular-season conference loss to Williams with a 5-1 semifinal triumph. 
 
The Panthers await their NCAA Tournament fate when the field selections come out on Monday, May 1. 
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