PRINCETON, N.J. – The women's tennis team rallied to win the doubles point, but Dartmouth stormed back to win the first four singles matches off court to record a 4-1 victory in a Saturday evening semifinal at the ECAC Indoor Championships at Jadwin Gymnasium.
While Dartmouth (5-3) won the No. 2 doubles match, Cornell (3-3) finished strong in the other two to get on the board. Junior
Michelle Wang and sophomore
Ananya Dua won the final four games at No. 3 to win, 6-3, then senior
Priyanka Shah and junior
Mariko Iinuma used a pair of late breaks at No. 1 to win, 6-4, and give the Big Red a 1-0 lead.
But the Big Green won in straight sets in four singles matches. Senior
Madison Stevens was in the third set of her match at No. 5 when play was halted.
Cornell, which entered the weekend's event at the No. 3 seed, will now move on to the third-place match at 11 a.m. Sunday against fifth-seeded Brown. The match will be streamed on subscription-based Ivy League Network here. http://www.ivyleaguenetwork.com/ivyleague/schedule?sid=TN&date=2018-02-06.
In Friday's other semifinal, top-seeded Princeton topped Brown, 4-2. The consolation semifinals saw fourth-seeded Penn rally to defeat eighth-seeded Harvard, 4-3, and sixth-seeded Columbia cruise past seventh-seeded Yale, 4-0. Sunday's schedule is as follows …
- 5th-place match: Penn vs. Columbia, 8 a.m.
- 7th-place match: Yale vs. Harvard, 9 a.m.
- 3rd-place match: Cornell vs. Brown, 11 a.m.
- Championship: Princeton vs. Dartmouth, 2 p.m.
DARTMOUTH 4, CORNELL 1
At Jadwin Gymnasium; Princeton, N.J.
Singles
1.
Priyanka Shah (C) vs. Kristina Mathis, DNF (6-7, 1-1)
2. Julia Schroder (D) def.
Mariko Iinuma, 6-4, 6-3
3. Racquel Lyn (D) def.
Ananya Dua, 6-2, 6-3
4. Abigail Chiu (D) def.
Cheyenne Lilienthal, 6-1, 6-1
5.
Madison Stevens (C) vs. Madison Hwang, DNF (6-0, 2-6, 1-0)
6. Allison McCann (D) def.
Michelle Wang, 6-3, 6-0
Doubles
1. Iinuma/Shah (C) def. Chiu/Schroder, 6-4
2. Mathis/Lyn (D) def. Lilienthal/Stevens, 6-2
3. Dua/Wang (C) def. Hwang/McCann, 6-3
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1), Singles (4,6,3,2)
Records: Cornell 3-3, Dartmouth 5-3
