No. 49 Big Green Win Ivy Match Against Cornell

Saturday, April 2

Hanover, N.H.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Cornell

No. 49 Big Green Win Ivy Match Against Cornell

4/2/2016 5:17:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – No. 49 Dartmouth women's tennis picked up its first Ivy League win on Saturday with a 6-1 defeat of Cornell at the Boss Tennis Center.

The Big Green are now 10-4 overall and 1-1 in conference action, while the Big Red – who took down Harvard on Friday – fell to 12-7 and 1-2.

At No. 1 doubles, junior Taylor Ng and sophomore Kristina Mathis had a 6-1 win over Marika Cusick and Lizzie Stewart, while senior Katherine Yau and sophomore Julia Schroeder had a 6-4 victory over Alexandra D'Ascenzo and Priyanka Shah at No. 2 to put Dartmouth up by one.

Cornell's lone point of the day came at the No. 6 singles position, but a 6-1, 6-4 win by Yau at No. 2 made it 2-1 in favor of the home team. Junior Jacqueline Crawford defeated Mariko Iinuma, 6-1, 6-4 at the No. 4 position and Ng took down D'Ascenzo, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, at No. 1 to clinch the win. With a 4-1 lead, three-set victories by Mathis at No. 3 and Schroeder at No. 5 ended the match.

The Big Green will be on the road for three conference matches in a row. Next weekend, Dartmouth will face Princeton and Penn and, the following Friday, will take on Brown. After that, the Green will return to Hanover to end the regular season against Yale on April 17 and Harvard on April 23.

1 – No. 15 Ng/Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Cusick/L. Stewart (Cornell), 6-1
2 – Yau/Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. D'Ascenzo/Shah (Cornell), 6-4
3 – Crawford/Kiven (Dartmouth) vs. Stevens/Iinuma (Cornell), 4-5, DNF

1 – Ng (Dartmouth) def. D'Ascenzo (Cornell), 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
2 – Yau (Dartmouth) def. Cusick (Cornell), 6-1, 6-4
3 – Mathis (Dartmouth) def. L. Stewart (Cornell), 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
4 – Crawford (Dartmouth) def. Iinuma (Cornell), 6-1, 6-4
5 – Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. J. Stewart (Cornell), 2-6, 7-5, 6-4
6 – Shah (Cornell) def. Chuang (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-3