PANTHER SENIOR REMI Ashkar escapes a diving tackle by Tufts linebacker Tommy Meade during Saturday’s final game of the season. Middlebury won the game and finished the season with a 7-1 record.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — When the Middlebury College football team pulled away in the fourth quarter from visiting Tufts on Saturday to win, 35-13, the Panthers had put the finishing touches on the team’s best season since 2007.
Middlebury this fall equaled the 2007 season’s 7-1 record, even if a result elsewhere on Saturday meant the Panthers had to settle for second place, unlike the program’s 2007 co-championship: Just before the Panthers finished off the Jumbos, Trinity (8-0) won vs. Wesleyan in overtime to take the 2012 NESCAC title.
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