No. 71 Women's Tennis Falls to Brown, 4-3

Friday, February 18

Princeton, N.J.

TBA

Dartmouth College

Brown

2/18/2011 10:14:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, NJ — Dartmouth dropped a 4-3 decision to Brown on Friday in the first round of the ECAC Winter Championships. Dartmouth got off to a great start winning the doubles point 2-1 after senor tri-captain Molly Scott (Trabuco Cyn, Calif.) and freshman Melissa Matsuoka (Newport Beach, Calif.) won handily at No. 1 and senior tri-captains Ryan Reichel (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) and Georgiana Smyser (Houston, Texas) secured the point with a 9-7 victory at No. 2.

Brown went up 3-1 with straight set singles victories at numbers 3, 4, and 6. Scott scored Dartmouth's second point with a 6-3, 6-4 victory at No. 1. Dartmouth was now down 3-2 with sophomore Sarah Leonard (Norwalk, Conn.) and freshman Sabrina Stewart (London, England) both entering the third set at No. 2 and No. 5. Sabrina was able to win her third set 6-3 to tie the match at 3-3. Unfortunately, Leonard was unable to complete the Big Green's comeback and dropped the third set 6-3 to Bianca Aboubakare.

The Big Green take on NJIT on Saturday at 11 a.m. in the consolation bracket of the tournament.

Singles
No. 1 Scott, Dartmouth def. Krasowski, Brown: 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 B. Aboubakare, Brown def. Leonard, Dartmouth: 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
No. 3 Herzberg, Brown def. Matsuoka, Dartmouth: 7-5, 6-2
No. 4 Harrow, Brown def. R. Reichel, Dartmouth: 6-1, 7-5
No. 5 Stewart, Dartmouth def. Flanzer, Brown: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
No. 6 Caldwell, Brown def. Smyser, Dartmouth: 6-2, 6-3

Doubles
No. 1 Scott/Matsuoka, Dartmouth def. B. Aboubakare/Harrow, Brown: 8-3
No. 2 Smyser/R. Reichel, Dartmouth def. C. Aboubakare /Krasowski, Brown: 9-7
No. 3 Herzberg/Caldwell, Brown def. J.Reichel/Stewart, Dartmouth: 8-5