NEW YORK, N.Y. -?
The Columbia Lions were too much for the Big Green on Friday, as Dartmouth lost 7-0 on Columbia's home courts."We knew that things had to go just right for us to have a good chance of knocking off the favored Columbia team," said Head Coach
Chuck Kinyon, "but the only thing that ended up going our way was the #1 doubles."
The talented team of seniors
Mark Brodie (Greensboro, N.C.) and
Jeffrey Schechtman (Highland Park, Ill.) easily took the No. 1 doubles match 8-4, but Columbia won the next two by similar margins to take the team point.
Although he took his opponent to a tiebreaker in the second set after dropping the first, Brodie fell at the No. 1 spot. At No. 3, Coach Kinyon thought sophomore
Justin Tzou (Cupertino, Calif.) "was a good match for [his opponent,] the Manhattan International Transfer," but ended up with a loss as well.
Freshman
Curtis Roby (New York, N.Y.), the only Dartmouth player to take his opponent to three sets, had to be taken off the court in the final set due to illness, going 6-3, 3-6, 3-0 overall.
The Big Green faces Cornell today at 2 pm, after Cornell lost 4-3 yesterday to Harvard.