MEAVILLE, Pa. -- The top-seeded and 67th-ranked Allegheny College men's tennis team punched its ticket to its fourth consecutive Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championship match with a 4-0 victory over Washington and Jefferson College in the semifinals on Thursday afternoon.

The Gators (16-7) needed less than an hour to defeat the fourth-seeded Presidents (6-12), less than a week after shutting out W&J in the regular-season finale. The top two doubles matches both ended with 6-0 scores, while two of the three singles matches played to completion ended in 6-0, 6-0 straight-set wins.

In the No. 1 singles match, Allegheny's freshman phenom Adam Memije (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) won all 12 games against W&J's Jacob Bennett. The win was Memije's 26th of the season in singles competition, tying the program's all-time single-season record set by Patrick Cole '14 during his senior year in 2013-14. Memije also teamed up with Benedek Kaibas (Salgótarján, Hungary/Mikszáth Kálmán Gimnázium) for Allegheny's No. 2 doubles victory, as the duo blanked Bennett and Nick Bussard.

Sophomore Olivier Erkens (Gouda, Netherlands/Coornhert Gymnasium) was a double winner, too. He earned the match-clinching point in his No. 5 singles bout by defeating Colby Peters, 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles Results
1. Levente Mihaly / Olivier Erkens def. Nate Clarke / Alex Duing, 6-0
2. Adam Memije / Benedek Kaibas def. Jacob Bennett / Nick Bussard, 6-0
3. Reid Stasolla / Zidaan Hassan vs. Jackson Akers / Colby Peters, 5-2 (unfinished)

Singles Results
1. Adam Memije def. Jacob Bennett, 6-0, 6-0
2. Levente Mihaly vs. Jackson Akers, 6-0, 5-1 (unfinished)
3. David Rodriguez vs. Nate Clarke, 6-1, 5-0 (unfinished)
4. Javier Bejarano Jimenez def. Alex Duing, 6-0, 6-0
5. Olivier Erkens def. Colby Peters, 6-1, 6-0
6. Zidaan Hassan vs. Nick Bussard, 6-2, 4-1 (unfinished)

Up Next
The top-seeded Gators are scheduled to host Grove City College in the PAC Championship Tournament finals on Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m. at the Robertson Athletic Complex. As the No. 2 seed, the Wolverines earned another championship berth with a 4-0 win over Franciscan University on Thursday. 

Saturday's match will mark the fourth consecutive PAC championship featuring the Gators and Wolverines. Allegheny will look to secure its fourth championship in a row after defeating Grove City in the regular season, 7-0, on April 11.