As the regular season comes to a close, the Harvard women's tennis team has clinched a portion of the Ivy League title. Sharing the limelight with only Penn, sole ownership of the Ivy title is within the Crimson's grasp at home today against Dartmouth.

Currently undefeated in the Ivy League, Harvard (10-10, 6-0 Ivy) is in first place. Penn follows Harvard with a 5-1 record, the only blemish coming from the Crimson. If Harvard closes out the regular season with a win over Dartmouth today, Penn would be eliminated from a share of the Ivy title.

With most of its difficult matches well in the past, the Crimson is hoping that the Big Green will not complicate things. Dartmouth (9-7, 2-3 Ivy) doesn't seem to pose too much of a threat, although the Crimson could be without Captain Ivy Wang, its top player.

"Even though we have a lot of confidence as a team going into the match, we have to play one hundred percent," junior Vedica Jain said. "If we're all on top of our game tomorrow, we'll do fine."

Dartmouth lacks depth as a team, turning in stellar individual performances, but having trouble pulling together a solid team finish.

This was evident last week as the Big Green had strong efforts from the top members of its team, but still showed no team dominance. Yale handed Dartmouth a 6-3 loss last Friday and Brown beat the Big Green 5-2.

Dartmouth does have some fantastic individual players that could challenge the Crimson's upper ranks. Juniors Allison Taff and Rebecca Dirksen were the sole point earners in the match against Yale, winning their respective singles matches and pairing to win a doubles match.

Dirksen, who defeated Yale's Somer Khanlarian in two sets, 6-3, 6-2, is the only undefeated player in the Ivy League. She again showed her toughness in a match against Brown's Saranga Sangakkara. Sangakkara is ranked third in the East Region and lost to Dirksen, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Taff took Yale's Sarah Naison-Phillips to three sets, taking her out, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2.

The Crimson can breathe easy with this information, as Harvard defeated Brown and Yale earlier this season. The Crimson handed Brown a 5-4 decision on Friday, and defeated Yale 6-3 on Sunday.

Wang, Harvard's No. 1 player, lost a close match to Brown's Sangakkara in three sets, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4. Wang retired from her match against Yale, which may have been her last court appearance for Harvard.

No. 2 Vedica Jain followed suit, losing to Brown's Julia Martynova, 6-2, 6-2.

The next three singles matches went in the Crimson's favor, as three younger members of the Harvard team stepped up to the challenge.

Freshmen Fleur Broughton and Andrea Magyera Defeated the Bears in straight sets, while sophomore Sanaz Ghazal battled Brown's Leela Raju to a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 decision.

Martynova and Raju moved the match back in Brown's favor, winning No. 1 doubles 8-4. But the tandems of Ghazal and Broughton and Sarah McGinty and Roxanna Curto sailed to victories in the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, 8-2 and 8-3 respectively.