Men's Tennis Comes Back to Defeat Michigan State, 4-2

Saturday, February 28

East Lansing, Mich.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Michigan State

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Men's Tennis Comes Back to Defeat Michigan State, 4-2

2/28/2015 5:53:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

EAST LANSING, Mich. – After the home team claimed the doubles point, the No. 50 Dartmouth men's team battled through multiple ties to defeat Michigan State, 4-2, at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility on Saturday afternoon.

The Big Green improved to 8-4 on the season, while the Spartans dipped to 7-7.

Although Michigan State won at the No. 1 and 3 doubles, it had to fight Dartmouth the whole way. John Patrick Mullane and Harry Jadun had a 6-2 victory over junior Dovydas Sakinis and senior Chris Kipouras at No. 1, but the other two matches were up for grabs.

Sophomore Diego Pedraza and senior Sam Todd had a close 7-6 loss to Doug Zade and Jasper Koenen at the No. 3 doubles, while junior Brendan Tannenbaum and sophomore Max Schmidt were at 6-6 with Gijs Linders and Brett Forman when their match was cut short.

The Green tied things up with Schmidt's 6-0, 6-2 victory over Zade at the No. 6 singles. Dartmouth got the go-ahead with a 6-4, 6-4 win by Pedraza at the No. 4 position, but the score was tied at two when Forman had a 6-4, 6-4 victory of his own over Kipouras at No. 2.

Freshman Max Fliegner had a 6-2 first set against Koenen before falling in the second, 7-5. His 6-0 third set added Dartmouth's third point to the board, while a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory by Sakinis at the No. 1 singles clinched the win for the Green.

Dartmouth will not return to action until a 2 p.m. match against Texas Christian University in Dallas, Texas on March 21. That will be the first of five road matches that the Big Green will play in the span of a week.

#1 – No. 39 Mullane and Jadun (MS) def. No. 18 Sakinis and Kipouras (Dartmouth), 6-2
#2 – Tannenbaum and Schmidt (Dartmouth) vs. Linders and Forman (MS), 6-6(2-2), DNF
#3 – Zade and Koenen (MS) def. Pedraza and Todd (Dartmouth), 7-6(8-6)

#1 – No. 82 Sakinis (Dartmouth) def. No. 120 Linders (MS), 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
#2 – Forman (MS) def. No. 108 Kipouras (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-4
#3 – Riccardi (Dartmouth) vs. Jadun (MS), 7-6(7-4), 4-6, 1-2, DNF
#4 – Pedraza (Dartmouth) def. Dube (MS), 6-4, 6-4
#5 – Fliegner (Dartmouth) def. Koenen (MS), 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
#6 – Schmidt (Dartmouth) def. Zade (MS), 6-0, 6-2