The Big Green squash team came the under fire of big time squash powerhouses, Trinity and Amherst, last week.
"We've seen how we match up against top 10 teams," freshman Beau River said, "and now we got a taste for how the top four are."
Ranked second in the country, behind Harvard, the Lord Jeffs rolled into Hanover last Wednesday.
In an mostly uncontested matchup, Amherst routed Dartmouth 9-0.
River, who challenged one of the top ranked squash players in the nation, took the first set, but he couldn't fight off the barrage of huge shots from his opponent.
Down two sets, co-Captain John Gabel '98 stepped up his game enough to snag the third and fourth sets.
However, he couldn't hold off his opponent in the fifth as he fell, 3-2.
On Saturday, the Big Green traveled down to Trinity College to face Vassar and a talent-soaked Trinity squad.
Dartmouth had little trouble against Vassar, dismantling them in a 9-0 rampage.
But then there was Trinity.
Like the Amherst squad before them, Trinity proved too much for the Big Green. Dartmouth could only put up one point as they dropped the match, 8-1.
"I think we learned a lot from our Trinity and Amherst matches, it was somewhat of a wake up call," River said.
