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Date: September 17, 2005
Contact: Bill Sodoma

 

Three men's tennis players make semifinals at Middlebury

Middlebury, Vt. ---- Colby College men's tennis players Bryan Brown (Bangor, Maine), Tim Fuhriman and Alex Chin all made it to the semifinal round of their respective flights at the Middlebury Invitational Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.

Brown fought back for a 2-6, 7-6 (9-7), 10-7 (pro set) victory over Josh Feinberg of Bates in the 'B' flight opening round. Brown then took an easy 6-0, 6-0 win against Skidmore's Alex Iselin in the quarterfinals before falling 6-1, 6-0 to Conrad Olson of Middlebury in a semifinal match.

Fuhriman cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 win against Lyndon State's Andrew Pelkey in the first round of 'C' flight and then took a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Bowdoin's Andrew Fried in the quarterfinals. Trinity's David Yahng edged out a 2-6, 6-2, 10-8 win over Fuhriman in the semifinal match.

Chin won 6-2, 6-0 over James Liddell of Bates in the opening round of 'D' flight and easily beat Middlebury's Mason Graddock by a 6-1, 6-1 score in the quarterfinals. Chin lost 6-2, 6-2 to Trinity's Jon Hart in a semifinal match.

Griffin Richards made the 'D' flight quarterfinals before losing 6-2, 7-6 (1) to T.J. David of Skidmore. Richards took a 6-2, 6-0 win against Bowdoin's Chris Rogers in the opening round.

Ben Crane, Zach Schuman, Mather Neill and Tom Gildersleeve all lost in the opening round of their respective flights for the Mules.

Schuman and Neill took an 8-3 win against a Trinity team in the opening round of 'A' flight doubles and lost in the quarterfinals. Brown and Crane also won in 'A' flight doubles with a victory over a Wheaton team and then lost in the quarterfinals.

In 'B' flight doubles, Gildersleeve and Fuhriman won in the first round after a Skidmore default and then fell in a quarterfinal match.