The women's tennis team traveled to Cambridge yesterday to face the Harvard Crimson. A victory meant the Ivy League title. A defeat meant yet another second place finish for the perennial runner-up Big Green.
But history repeated itself again, and Dartmouth fell 7-0, adding 1995 to the list of second-place finishes.
Earlier in the season Dartmouth defeated an unbeaten Cornell team, and in each of the last two years Dartmouthdefeated Harvard, forcing the Crimson to settle for second place.
Several times in the team's 22-year history, it has finished second in the Ivy League title race.
Dartmouth finished its season with a 5-5 overall record, 5-2 in the Ivy League, leaving it in a second-place tie with the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell.
The match opened well yesterday as co-Captain Deb Healy '95 and Tracy Lee '98 teamed up to win the number one doubles match. But Harvard quickly rallied, winning the other two doubles matches and the doubles point.
Healy then faced Gina Majmudar at number one singles, losing 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. That was as good as it got for the Big Green as Harvard won the other five singles matches in straight sets.
While the end of the season was a disappointment, the season itself was not.
Few expected the Big Green to get as far as they did and the bright moments outnumbered the dark ones.
The team started out 1-3 and turned it around with a 7-0 shutout of Princeton, the defending Ivy League champion, and a close 4-3 victory over unbeaten Cornell.
The team is now focusing on the fall seaon, during which individual players will represent Dartmouth at tournaments.
