BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 25 Dartmouth men's tennis team fell to No. 49 Indiana at the IU Tennis Center on Saturday.
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Dan Martin and
Pierce Widdecombe's 6-3 win at the No. 3 doubles got the Big Green off on the right foot, but 7-5 Hoosier victories on courts one and two gave the first point to the home team.
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Indiana (8-3) made it 2-0 with a win at the top spot in singles before
Charlie Broom's 6-3, 6-2 defeat of Zac Brodney at the No. 2 position got Dartmouth (9-3) on the board. The Hoosiers took off from there, winning on courts five, four and six to clinch. Before the match was done,
Peter Conklin downed Carson Haskins in three sets at the No. 3 position.
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Another two weeks will pass before the Big Green head to Tennessee to play UConn, Memphis, MTSU and Vanderbilt.
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1) No. 42 Crane/Brodney (IU) def. No. 41 Broom/Horneffer (Dartmouth), 7-5 (7-5)
2) Haskins/Singh (IU) def. Conklin/Ross (Dartmouth), 7-5
3) Martin/Widdecombe (Dartmouth) def. Ahmadi/Fletchall (IU), 6-3
Order of finish: 3,2,1
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1) No. 86 Crane (IU) def. Martin (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-1
2) Broom (Dartmouth) def. Brodney (IU), 6-3, 6-2
3) Conklin (Dartmouth) def. Haskins (IU), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4
4) Vukovic (IU) def. Ross (Dartmouth), 6-0, 7-6 (7-0)
5) Redding (IU) def. Widdecombe (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-1
6) Singh (IU) def. Gibbons (Dartmouth), 7-5, 6-3
Order of finish: 1,2,5,4,6,3