The Binghamton University men’s tennis team fell to its second consecutive Ivy League opponent Sunday, 5-2 to Dartmouth in a match played at West Point.

Binghamton’s two wins came from freshman Sven Vloedgraven at sixth singles, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 over Jeffrey Schectman, and from the doubles point, as Binghamton swept all three doubles matches.

“We played those guys as close as you can play them,” said Binghamton head coach Adam Cohen. “A few breaks here or there and we might’ve won that match.”

The Bearcats fell to 1-3 as a team. Binghamton is 7-5 in doubles this season with Sebastian Dietz and Faisal Mohamed, arguably Cohen’s best players, sitting at 3-0. The German-born Dietz has played in all of the Bearcats’ matches in spite of a leg injury he has been battling since before the season, but he retired due to injury during the second set of his match against Dartmouth’s Daniel Freeman.

“Sebastian is really playing on one leg right now. He’s not a hundred percent … he’s probably even less than fifty percent,” Cohen admitted. “[He has shown] commendable effort on his part … but I think he’s going to need some time to get his injury healed and get ready for the big part of the season.”

The Bearcats (1-3) fell to host Columbia University, 4-3, last Friday at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center in Manhattan. The decisive match was third doubles, where Columbia’s Dan Urban and Magdi El-Mihdawy defeated Gregoire Berner and Arnav Jain 9-8 (7-4).

Binghamton’s Moshe Levy, Alex Dobrin and Berner took home wins at third, fourth and fifth singles respectively. Dietz and Mohamed had Binghamton’s lone doubles win.

Despite the poor start to the season, Cohen said he remains optimistic.

“It’s still very early; give us some time,” he said. “We’re competing hard at matches [and] we’ve had good energy from the first position to the last position.”

The Bearcats visit Boston College at 10 a.m. Saturday and Brown at 1 p.m. Sunday.