Dartmouth Men's Tennis Outlasts Cornell

Saturday, April 7

Hanover, N.H.

2:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Cornell

4/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H. - The Dartmouth men's tennis team fought hard down to the wire to take a 4-3 victory over Cornell for its first Ivy win of the season. The Big Green improved to 16-4 (1-1 Ivy) with the win.

The doubles is always a key point in any closely contested match and today's was no exception. The Green started the ball rolling with a solid victory at the No. 2 doubles spot as the team of Jeffrey Schechtman and Daniel Freeman blasted through its Big Red rivals, 8-5. Cornell's nationally ranked No. 1 doubles team of Brunner/Raff had tasted defeat in the fall at the hands of David Waslen and today Steven McGaughey and Waslen maintained their dominance with a hotly contested win to clinch the point.

The No. 1 Cornell player came out playing the best tennis of his four years vs. the Green and evened the score for the Big Red at 1-1. McGaughey played an almost flawless serving match winning his encounter at No. 5 singles, 6-3, 6-4 putting the Green up 2-1.

In a great tug of war by two serve and volleyers, Dartmouth freshman Daniel Freeman bested senior Josh Raff 6-3 in the third, giving the Green its third point. Ari Gayer and Schechtman were both in their third sets (after dropping close 1st sets) with the match on the line. Gayer was outlasted by his Big Red counterpart, putting the team match on Jeff's racquet and he stepped up to win it, 6-4 in the third to seal victory for Dartmouth.

Next week the Big Green hits the road playing Princeton on Friday and Penn on Saturday.

Doubles
1. David Waslen/Daniel Freeman (D) def. Brunner/Raff (C), 9-8
2. Jeffrey Schechtman/Steven McGaughey (D) def. Heggie/Doppelt (C), 8-5
3. Brous/Coldstein (C) def. Ari Gayer/Andy Kim (D), 8-3

Singles

1. Nick Brunner (C) def. David Waslen (D) 6-0, 6-3
2. Daniel Freeman (D) def. Josh Raff (C) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3

3. Jeffrey Schechtman (D) def. Rory Heggie (C) 6-7, 6-2, 6-4
4. Jonathan Fife (C) def. Justin Tzou (D) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
5. Steven McGaughey (D) def. Peter Kung (C) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
6. Josh Goldstein (C) def. Ari Gayer 6-4, 2-6, 6-2

        FINAL SCORE
    Dartmouth     4    Cornell    3