Box Score CLAREMONT, Calif.—Top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps rallied from dropping the doubles points with four straight-set victories in singles and defeated 12th-ranked Babson College, 4-1, in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals on Monday night at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center. 

Babson, which was making its first NCAA quarterfinal appearance in program history, suffered its first loss since March 21 and ended a historic season at 22-3 overall. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps recorded its 31st consecutive win to improve to 31-2 on the year while advancing to the national semifinals for the third straight season. 

The Green and White drew first blood by claiming the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 3. Senior Wesley Zhang (Staten Island, N.Y.) and first-year Edward Wang (Burr Ridge, Ill.) raced out to a 4-0 lead and defeated senior Matthew Robinson (Wynnewood, Pa.) and junior Warren Pham (Yorba Linda, Calif.) 6-2 at number three. Senior Brady Anderson (Rochester, N.Y.) and first-year Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) followed by recording the only break of their match at number one to edge the Stags' 14th-ranked pairing of first-years Caleb Settles (Claremont, Calif.) and Brandon Vu (Chino Hills, Calif.) 6-4 to clinch the doubles point. 

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' 15th-ranked pairing of junior Advik Mareedu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and sophomore Josh Kim (Hong Kong, China) were 6-2 winners over Babson's duo of junior Alexander Merson (Palisades Park, N.J.) and sophomore Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) at number two. 

Five of the six singles matches were tight midway through the opening set before the Stags seized control. Mareedu, the top-ranked player in Division III, pulled away for a 6-4, 6-0 win over Anderson at number one, while Kim broke away from a 3-3 deadlock in the first and rallied from 3-1 down in the second to beat Zhang 6-3, 6-4 at number four giving the hosts a 2-1 advantage. 

Settles also won the final three games of the opening set on the way to beating Babson sophomore Mattias Harrell (Oslo, Norway) 6-3, 6-2 at number six, and senior Tarm Rojanasoonthon (Bangkok, Thailand) secured the clinching point moments later by upending Mendoza at number five. He took control with an early break in set one and responded from a 3-2 deficit in the second by winning four unanswered games to complete the 6-1, 6-4 victory. 

Wang and 42nd-ranked Robinson split the first two sets at number three, while Merson was down to Pham, the 14th-ranked player in Division III, 7-5, 3-3 when the match was decided. 

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps will face fourth-ranked Case Western Reserve in Tuesday's semifinals. 

MATCH NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 0-3 all-time against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
•    In addition to reaching the national quarterfinals for the first time in school history, Babson finished set a new single-season record with its 22 victories. 
•    The Beavers' senior class of Anderson (91), Zhang (86) and Ole Lepsoe (Oslo, Norway), who recorded 84 career victories, rank fourth, fifth and sixth on the program's combined wins list. 
•    Babson finished the season with an 8-3 mark against ITA top-40 teams and went 2-2 versus top-10 foes.
•    Wang set single-season program records for both singles (24) and combined victories (41), while Merson's 22 doubles wins are also a new single-season mark.