Thursday, February 9, 2017
As expected, the home match against Trinity attracted the biggest crowd of the season yet and the quality of squash was of the highest caliber. In the end, our women dominated the Bantams (8-1) while the men suffered their first loss of the season (5-4) against a strong Trinity team.
Women’s Recap:
The first round of play started off a little shaky. #3 Kayley Leonard, #6 Katie Tutrone and #9 Eleonore Evans, all went down 0-1. After a few adjustments, the three of them gained control of the matches and came out to win in four games.
The Mehta sisters (#5 Alyssa and #8 Sophie) stepped on court next and both took solid 3-0 wins. #2 Gina Kennedy also went on to win in three.
Trinity ended up taking one match at #7 with Sue Ann Yong losing a tough match in five games. #1 Sabrina Sobhy and #4 Amelia Henley both won in three and sealed the 8-1 victory.
Men’s Recap:
Harvard was 2-1 up after the first round of play with #9 Devin McLaughlin and #6 Sean Hughes winning fairly comfortably.
But Trinity fought right back and took the second round of play 2-1. Dylan Murray at #8 was already 2-0 up but Trinity’s James Evans turned the match around and won in five. #5 David Ryan took a convincing 3-0 victory.
With the match at 3-3 going in to the last round, we knew it wasn’t going to be easy to sneak two more wins. #1 Saad Abouaish fought bravely but eventually fell in three games. #4 Timmy Brownell was 2-0 up and Bryan Koh was coming back at #7 after losing the first game. However, Brownell lost the next two games and was going into the fifth while Koh was up 2-1 on the other court. Brownell was in the lead for most of the fifth but his opponent hung in and ended up sneaking a win (11-9) while Koh won his match right afterwards in four games. An unbelievably close match!
All in all, both matches were examples of fair, competitive and exciting college squash. The coaches are very proud of both squads.
Time for the last weekend of regular season before the men’s nationals kick off next Friday.
Go Crimson!
Full Results on USSquash.com:
#1 Harvard Women vs. #3 Trinity Women 8-1
http://modules.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/list_scorecard.asp?id=94330
#1 Harvard Men vs. #2 Trinity Men 4-5
http://modules.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/list_scorecard.asp?id=94264
Upcoming matches and events:
Friday, Feb 10 @ 4pm (women) and 6pm (men)
Harvard vs. Brown @ Brown
Saturday, Feb 11 @ 11am (women)
Harvard vs. Stanford @ Harvard
Live stream: http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/harvard
Sunday, Feb 12 @ 1pm (men and women)
Harvard vs. Yale @ Harvard
Live stream: http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/harvard
Friday-Sunday, Feb 17-19
Men’s Team Nationals @ Harvard
Friday-Sunday, Feb 24-26
Women’s Team Nationals @ Princeton
Friday-Sunday, Mar 3-5
Individual Nationals @ Dartmouth
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