HANOVER, N.H. – Having been away from home for 40 days, Dartmouth men's tennis will be back at the Boss Tennis Center this weekend to host No. 42 Penn and No. 39 Princeton.
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The Big Green are 8-9 overall and 0-3 in Ivy League play after having recently fallen to No. 15 Harvard, No. 58 Cornell and No. 23 Columbia. Against the Big Red on Saturday,
Andy Ilie and
Logan Chang had a win at No. 3 doubles, while
Alex Knox-Jones defeated his opponent on court three in singles.
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The Quakers are 16-4 and 3-0 in conference action and are tied for first in the league with Harvard. Penn is on a seven-match winning streak after blanking Princeton and Brown and taking Yale down, 5-2.
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The Tigers enter Sunday's match with a 16-6 mark and are 2-1 in Ivy League action. Princeton is 8-1 since March 5, the loss to Penn being the Tigers' first since Feb. 26.
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After this weekend, Dartmouth has just two more matches to go: at Yale on April 22 and at home against Brown two days later.