NEW YORK, N.Y. – Dartmouth men's tennis ended its eight-match road stretch with a 7-0 loss to No. 23 Columbia in a neutral-site match on Sunday.
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Dartmouth (8-9, 0-3) vs. No. 23 Columbia (11-6, 1-1)
Pierce Widdecombe and
Alex Knox-Jones started the afternoon with a 6-3 victory at No. 2 doubles, while the Lions picked up wins on courts one and three to head into singles with a 1-0 advantage.
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Columbia went on to win all six singles matches to clinch the victory. The final match to finish between Alex Kotzen and
Anders Gibbons was a close one, with the first set going to a tiebreaker.
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Having been on the road for over a month, Dartmouth will get the opportunity to play at home next weekend when it hosts Penn and Princeton.
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1)Â Westphal/Winegar (Columbia) def. Gibbons/Pauli (Dartmouth), 6-4
2)Â Widdecombe/Knox-Jones (Dartmouth) def. Kotzen/Ruger (Columbia), 6-3
3)Â Hashimoto/Huang (Columbia) def. Chang/Ilie (Dartmouth), 6-3
Order of finish: 2,1,3
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1)Â Kotzen (Columbia) def. Gibbons (Dartmouth), 7-6(4), 6-4
2)Â Hashimoto (Columbia) def. Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-1
3)Â Westphal (Columbia) def. Pauli (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-4
4) Huang (Columbia) def. Knox-Jones (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-2
5)Â Ruger (Columbia) def. Ilie (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-1
6)Â Horvat (Columbia) def. Widdecombe (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-2
Order of finish: 5,6,4,2,3,1