The Big Green (4-16, 0-6 Ivy) lost both matches by identical scores, 6-1, to the Bulldogs (13-7, 3-2 Ivy) and the Bears (18-9, 4-2 Ivy).
The Big Green, however, was without the services of Dan Freeman '10, the team's No. 1 player, who stayed home over the weekend with a stomach illness, Michael Laser '12 said.
"It would have really helped to have Dan in the lineup," Laser said. "Yale had very solid players at one and two, and if we had each gotten moved down a little bit, we would have been able to play better."
Filling in at the No. 1 spot, Laser teamed up with Stephen Greif '11 in doubles to battle the No. 1 duo of senior Michael Caldwell and junior Connor Dawson, and lost a tight match, 8-5.
"Laser stepped up and played well in first doubles," Curtis Roby '11 said.
The consistent team of captain Ari Gayer '09 and Roby scored a doubles win for the Big Green at the No. 2 spot, edging freshman Joel Samaha and sophomore Calvin Bennett 8-7, while Chris Ho '12 and Justin Tzou '10 were toppled, 8-3, to give Yale the doubles point.
The Big Green struggled in singles, with every player playing a spot up due to Freeman's absence.
Ho found success at the bottom of the lineup, easily defeating freshman Erik Blumenkranz, 6-4, 6-1.
"Ho crushed at [the six spot]," Laser said. "But at that point the match was pretty much out of reach. Winning doubles would have been helpful, because three matches went to three sets. If we had won the doubles point it could have gone either way."
Ho's victory marked the only point of the day for Dartmouth, as Yale swept No. 1 through No. 5 singles.
Roby and Gayer both fought hard for the Big Green, each taking their matches into the third set before falling short. Roby, playing at No. 2, lost to junior Connor Dawson, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4, while Gayer fell, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Tzou also kept his match close with a strong effort against Caldwell, but eventually lost, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
The rest of the Dartmouth lineup fell in straight sets.
Greif, playing in the No. 1 singles spot for the first time all year, lost to Jeff Dawson, 6-4, 6-4, while Laser was edged by Samaha.
"I thought we competed pretty well considering our best player was out of the lineup," Roby said. "They're just a better team than us without our best player."
At Brown, it was the same story for the Big Green, made worse by an arm injury that kept Tzou out of the lineup as well, Roby said.
"This time we had two of our four best players out," he said. "Everyone moved up two spots, which is a lot."
Even so, the Big Green showed promising signs early, winning two doubles matches over four of Brown's seniors.
"It was very exciting in the beginning," Roby said. "We won the doubles point, but in singles, we lost three or four tiebreakers which hurt us big time."
Dartmouth dropped all of the singles matches on the day, but the final results of each match were not available by press time.
The Big Green will return to action Wednesday as the team looks to salvage its Ivy League season against Harvard, the second-place team in the Ivy League.
The match will take place at the Boss Tennis Center at 3 p.m.
