Big Green Tennis Defeats No. 49 Boston College, 4-3

Saturday, January 17

Hanover, N.H.

1:30 PM

Dartmouth College

BOSTON COLLEGE

Big Green Tennis Defeats No. 49 Boston College, 4-3

1/17/2015 6:33:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth women's tennis team returned to action after a two-month break, defeating No. 49 Boston College, 4-3, at the Boss Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon. The last time the Big Green defeated the Eagles was in 2010.

Junior Katherine Yau and freshman Kristina Mathis had a 6-2 victory over Assiya Dair and Katya Vasilyev at No. 2 doubles, while freshman Julia Schroeder and senior Akiko Okuda defeated Emily Safron and Wan-Yi Sweeting, 6-2, at No. 3. In the top spot, sophomore Taylor Ng and sophomore Jacqueline Crawford fell to Jessica Wacnik and Lexi Borr, 6-4. The BC duo is ranked third in the Northeast region.

At No. 1 singles, Ng decisively downed Wacnik, who is No. 61 in the country and No. 1 in the Northeast, dropping just one game on the way to a 6-1, 6-0 victory. Mathis clinched the win for Dartmouth with her three-set win at No. 3, defeating No. 12 Assiya Dair by a score of 2-6, 7-5, 7-5. Okuda battled back from a 2-5 second set deficit to win the set, 7-5, but ultimately fell, 6-4, in the third.

Next up for the Big Green will be Kick-Off Weekend on Jan. 24-25 when Brown, Cornell and Mississippi State come to Hanover.

1) Wacnik and Borr (BC) def. Ng and Crawford (Dartmouth), 6-4
2) Yau and Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Dair and Vasilyev (BC), 6-2
3) Schroeder and Okuda (Dartmouth) def. Safron and Sweeting (BC), 6-2

1)    No. 92 Ng (Dartmouth) def. No. 61 Wacnik (BC), 6-1, 6-0
2)    No. 103 Borr (BC) def. Yau (Dartmouth), 6-7, 6-3, 6-2
3)    Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Dair (BC), 2-6, 7-5, 7-5
4)    Vasilyev (BC) def. Okuda (Dartmouth), 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
5)    Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Safron (BC), 6-1, 7-6(6)
6)    Salonen (BC) def. Bessen (Dartmouth), 6-7, 6-2, 6-2