MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The sixth-seeded doubles tandem of Phillippe Kosyagin (Sr.) and Tair Sarmanov (Fy.) rattled off three consecutive victories to advance to the semifinals, highlighting the Bates College men's tennis team's performance at the ITA Regional Championships, held Friday through Sunday at Middlebury College.

After receiving an opening-round bye, Kosyagin and Sarmanov won three straight matches to earn a spot in the final four of the championship draw. Their run came to an end in the semifinals with an 8-5 setback to top-seeded Andreas Sillaste and Lukas Frangenberg of Amherst.

Bates also entered the doubles tandems of Will Marshall (Sr.) and Jack Kirby (Fy.), and Nicolas Ozer (Sr.) and Josh Maller (So.). Marshall and Kirby fell to Daniel Shemesh and Muaz Malik of Brandeis, 8-2. Ozer and Maller dropped an 8-5 decision in the opening round to Babson's Sourish Gadhi and Rishi Batlanki.

Sarmanov also picked up a victory in the A singles championship draw, opening the tournament with a dominant 6-0, 6-0 win over Terrance Bayly-Henshaw of Norwich. His singles run ended in the round of 32 against MIT's Gary Jiang, 6-0, 7-5.

Rocco Regnier (So.) battled MIT's Hunter Liao in a three-set opening-round match. Regnier captured the first set before Liao rallied to prevail 4-6, 6-1, 10-8 in the deciding match tiebreak.

Kosyagin rounded out Bates' contingent in the A singles draw, falling to Tufts' Stavros Mastrogamvrakis, 6-3, 6-2, in the opening round.

Four Bobcats competed in the B singles draw. Ozer, Marshall and Sean Park (Fy.) received opening-round byes, while Josh Maller (So.) opened against Tufts' Taki Shuda and fell 8-2.

In the round of 32, Ozer dropped an 8-0 decision to Babson's Max Lidman, Marshall fell 8-1 to Middlebury's Henry Groves, and Park was defeated by Trinity's Dean Jackson, 8-5.

The garnet and white concludes the autumn portion of its schedule in two weeks when they host the annual Wallach Invitational, Oct. 10-11.