No. 44 SMU Defeats No. 35 Dartmouth, 4-3

Saturday, March 19

Dallas, Texas

5:30 PM

Dartmouth College

SMU

3/19/2016 9:51:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

DALLAS, Texas – The No. 35 Dartmouth men's tennis team narrowly fell to No. 44 SMU, 4-3, at Turpin Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Big Green fell to 11-5, while the Mustangs improved to 14-5.

SMU won the doubles point with victories at the No. 1 and 3 positions. At No. 2, junior George Wall and senior Brendan Tannenbaum were leading Nate Lammons and Arkadijs Slobodkins, 5-4, when the match went unfinished.

Dartmouth tied the score at one when Fliegner defeated Kerner by scores of 6-3, 6-1, at the No. 4 position and Wall put the Green ahead by taking down Butler, 6-4, 6-2, at No. 3. Wins at No. 5 and No. 2 by the Mustangs gave the lead back to the home team, making it 3-2 in favor of SMU.

With just two courts still playing, senior Dovydas Sakinis – who is ranked 55th in the ITA National Rankings – defeated Hunter Johnson in three sets at the No. 1 position, dropping the first set, 6-4, before taking the next two by the same scores to tie things at three-all.

The match came down to freshman Eddie Grabill and Yates Johnson at No. 6. Johnson won the first set, 6-3, but Grabill took the second set, 7-6(11-9). In the ever-important third set, Johnson walked away with the victory by a score of 6-3 to end the match.

On Sunday, Dartmouth will play its final match in Dallas and will face its highest ranked opponent of the season when it takes on No. 3 TCU at 2 p.m.

1 – Johnson/Johnson (SMU) def. Sakinis/Glasnovic (Dartmouth), 6-3
2 – Lammons/Slobodkins (SMU) vs. Wall/Tannenbaum (Dartmouth), 4-5, DNF
3 – Kerner/Butler (SMU) def. Schmidt/Fliegner (Dartmouth), 6-4

1 – No. 55 Sakinis (Dartmouth) def. Johnson (SMU), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
2 – Lammons (SMU) def. Riccardi (Dartmouth), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
3 – Wall (Dartmouth) def. Butler (SMU), 6-4, 6-2
4 – Fliegner (Dartmouth) def. Kerner (SMU), 6-3, 6-1
5 – Slobodchikov (SMU) def. Glasnovic (Dartmouth), 6-2, 7-6 (7-5)
6 – Johnson (SMU) def. Grabill (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-7 (9-11), 6-3