Dartmouth Opens Big Green Invite Against Minnesota

Friday, November 6

Hanover, N.H.

5:30 PM

Dartmouth College

Day One vs. Minnesota

Dartmouth Opens Big Green Invite Against Minnesota

11/7/2015 9:01:00 AM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – On the first day of the Big Green Invite, the Dartmouth women's tennis team faced Minnesota, going 8-2 overall.

In singles, junior Taylor Ng and Julia Courter were locked in a fierce battle for the entire match. Ng narrowly took the first set, 7-6(7) and fought hard to win the second, 6-4. Sophomore Julia Schroeder went to three sets against Annemarie Emme, dropping the first, 3-6, before easily winning the remaining two, 6-2, 6-3. Senior Julienne Keong had a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Alex Bergman.

All three of the doubles matches were close. Mathis and junior Jacqueline Crawford had an 8-4 win over Jessika Mozia and Courter, while Keong and fellow senior Katherine Yau defeated Camila Vargas Gomez and Paula Rincon-Ortero, 8-5. Ng and freshman Allison Chuang fell to Emme and Caitlyn Merzbacher in a tiebreaker, 8-7(3).

The Big Green return to the Boss Tennis Center at 2 p.m. on Saturday with doubles against UMass. That will be followed by singles and doubles against Denver.

Singles
Ng (Dartmouth) def. Courter (Minn.), 7-6(7), 6-4
Yau (Dartmouth) def. Mozia (Minn.), 6-3, 6-0
Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Emme (Minn.), 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Vargas Gomez (Minn.), 6-3, 7-5
Crawford (Dartmouth) def. Merzbacher (Minn.), 6-1, 6-1
Rincon-Ortero (Minn.) def. Chuang (Dartmouth), 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(3)
Keong (Dartmouth) def. Bergman (Minn.), 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
Mathis/Crawford (Dartmouth) def. Mozia/Courter (Minn.), 8-4
Emme/Merzbacher (Minn.) def. Ng/Chuang (Dartmouth), 8-7(3)
Yau/Keong (Dartmouth) def. Vargas Gomez/Rincon-Ortero (Minn.), 8-5