No. 49 Dartmouth Defeats Harvard in Regular Season Finale

Saturday, April 23

Hanover, N.H.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Harvard

No. 49 Dartmouth Defeats Harvard in Regular Season Finale

4/23/2016 7:58:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – No. 49 Dartmouth women's tennis closed the 2016 regular season with a 5-2 win over No. 59 Harvard at the Thompson outdoor courts on Senior Day Saturday.

The Big Green ended up with a record of 13-6 and 4-3 in Ivy League play, while the Crimson dipped to 12-11 and 2-5. Dartmouth moved from fifth at the start of the weekend to finish second in the league standings.

Wins by senior Katherine Yau and sophomore Kristina Mathis at No. 2 doubles and junior Jacqueline Crawford and sophomore Lexxi Kiven at No. 3, both by scores of 6-2, gave the first point to Dartmouth. At the top spot, the 21st-ranked pairing of junior Taylor Ng and sophomore Kristina Mathis were ahead, 4-3, when the match went unfinished.

Schroeder and Ng made it 3-0 with victories at the No. 5 and 1 positions, but Harvard got one back with a win at No. 6. Mathis clinched with her 7-5, 6-4 win over Nikki Kallenberg at No. 3 and Yau won her final Ivy match of her career in the form of a three-set victory at No. 2.

1 – No. 21 Ng/Mathis (Dartmouth) vs. Oosterhout/Lee (Harvard), 4-3, DNF
2 – Yau/Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Ringblom/Xiong (Harvard), 6-2|
3 – Crawford/Kiven (Dartmouth) def. Jasper/Kallenberg (Harvard), 6-2

1 – Ng (Dartmouth) def. Lee (Harvard), 6-1, 6-3
2 – Yau (Dartmouth) def. Oosterhout (Harvard), 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
3 – Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Kallenberg (Harvard), 7-5, 6-4
4 – Ringblom (Harvard) def. Crawford (Dartmouth), 2-6, 6-4(10-6)
5 – Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Xiong (Harvard), 6-2, 6-0
6 – He (Harvard) def. Chuang (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-1