Dartmouth Drops Close Match to Yale on Day Two of ECAC Championship

Saturday, February 19

Ithaca, N.Y.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Yale

Anders Gibbons men's tennis invitational action

Junior Anders Gibbons

Photo by: Doug Austin

Dartmouth Drops Close Match to Yale on Day Two of ECAC Championship

2/19/2022 7:31:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

It all came down to play at the No. 1 singles, but it was the Bulldogs that came up with the 4-3 win

By: Charlotte Brackett

ITHACA, N.Y. – Dartmouth men's tennis was narrowly edged by Yale, 4-3, in its second match of the ECAC Indoor Championship on Saturday. The Big Green are now 3-3, while the Lions are 5-3.

Pierce Widdecombe and Alex Knox-Jones started things off with their 6-3 win at the No. 2 doubles. A 6-4 win by the Bulldogs on court one left it up to play on court three. It was a mighty close one, but Andy Ilie and Daniel Webb narrowly fell, 7-6(9-7).

Yale victories on courts six and two suddenly gave the Bulldogs a 3-0 lead. A 6-3, 6-4 win by Widdecombe at the No. 5 position got Dartmouth on the board, while Dominik Pauli and Knox-Jones soon made it a 3-3 match. On court one, Carlos Guerrero Alvarez dropped his first set, 6-4, before winning the second by the same score. In the third set, he narrowly fell, 6-4, giving the win to Yale.

The Green will end the championship on Sunday with an 8 a.m. match against Brown.

1) Sun/Lin (Yale) def. Gibbons/Pauli (Dartmouth), 6-4
2) Widdecombe/Knox-Jones (Dartmouth) def. Reilly/Dean (Yale), 6-3
3) Oberg/Lefevre (Yale) def. Ilie/Webb (Dartmouth), 7-6(9-7)
Order of finish: 2,1,3

1) Sun (Yale) def. Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
2) Dean (Yale) def. Gibbons (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-3
3) Pauli (Dartmouth) def. Lin (Yale), 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
4) Knox-Jones (Dartmouth) def. Reilly (Yale), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4
5) Widdecombe (Dartmouth) def. Dehmoubed (Yale), 6-3, 6-4
6) Neal (Yale) def. Ilie (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-3
Order of finish: 6,2,5,3,4,1