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Women's Squash Update 2
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League women’s
squash season is well underway and the race for the Friends of
Harvard Squash Trophy, given annually to the Ivy League
women’s squash champion, is heating up.
In Ivy action, Harvard and Yale are tied atop the standings with
identical 3-0 records. Princeton also checks in with an undefeated
Ivy League mark at 2-0 on the season, while the Penn Quakers are
2-1. Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell are still looking for their first
Ivy wins of the 2010-11 season.
The next Ivy League contest will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 26
when Princeton plays host to Penn at 7:00 p.m. at the Jadwin Squash
Courts. That match between the Tigers and Quakers could go a long
way in determining the 2011 Ivy League champion as, dating back to
the inaugural season of Ivy women’s squash in 1983, the
League champion has finished with an undefeated mark in each of the
28 seasons.
All eight Ivy League schools cracked the top-20 in the latest set
of 2010-2011 Dunlop Women’s College Squash Team Rankings,
which were released on Jan. 14., led by top-ranked Harvard and
second-ranked Yale. Princeton is ranked fourth, Penn fifth, Cornell
seventh, Dartmouth eighth, Brown tenth and Columbia 17th.
Complete women’s CSA team rankings
Complete women’s CSA individual
rankings
What follows is a brief team-by-team look at the Ivy League squads
as they pursue the Friends of Harvard Squash Trophy and then set
their sights on the Collegiate Squash Association’s (CSA)
Team Championships, which will be hosted by the Princeton Tigers on
Feb. 18-20 in Princeton, N.J.
#10 Brown (4-3, 0-3 Ivy
League)
Results & Highlights: The Bears opened their
second half of the season with dominating wins over Bowdoin (9-0),
Amherst (7-2) and Mount Holyoke (8-1). Brown was led by freshman
Sarah Domenick, who recorded three victories at the No. 2 position
in the three Bear wins.
Brown’s Next Ivy Match: Feb. 5, 2011 at
Yale (New Haven, Conn.)
Columbia
(7-1)
Results & Highlights: Columbia is playing as
a varsity squad for the first time in 2010-11, but the Lions are
not competing in the Ivy Round Robin schedule this season. The
Lions most recently posted a 5-0 record at the Pioneer Valley
Invitational on Jan. 14 – 16 in South Hadley, Mass. The five
wins included shutouts over Smith and Wellesley and a 6-3 upset win
over 13th-ranked Mount Holyoke. Against Mount Holyoke,
Morgan Strauss, Jenny Schroder
and Anne Cheng all won in sets.
Columbia’s Next Match: Jan. 22 vs. Bates
(New York, N.Y.)
#7 Cornell (1-4, 0-4 Ivy
League)
Results & Highlights: The Big Red returned
from break with a 9-0 home loss to second-ranked Yale on Jan. 15.
Seven of the nine matches were decided in straight sets, with only
Cornell’s Lauren Sachvie at No. 4 and
Jennifer Gemmell at No. 3 sending their matches to
four sets.
Cornell’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 29, 2011 vs.
Dartmouth (Ithaca, N.Y.)
#8 Dartmouth (6-3, 0-2
Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Big Green returned
from break with a match against Ivy foe Yale on Jan. 8 and fell to
the Bulldogs, 6-3. But Dartmouth rebounded to post a 4-1 mark since
that loss to Yale, including shutout wins over Amherst (9-0), Mount
Holyoke (9-0), Franklin & Marshall (9-0) and Bates (9-0).
Dartmouth’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 29, 2011
at Cornell (Ithaca, N.Y.)
#1 Harvard (6-0, 3-0 Ivy
League)
Results & Highlights: The Crimson have opened
the 2010-11 season with six consecutive 9-0 wins, including three
against Ivy League opposition. Most recently, the Crimson returned
from break with a dominating win at Bates on Jan. 19 that saw all
nine players in the Crimson lineup record 3-0 wins. Against the
Bobcats, Harvard’s Alisha Mashruwala played
her first match of the season in the No. 2 spot and took the first
set 11-0 and won the next two sets by identical 11-1 scores.
Harvard’s Next Ivy Match: Feb. 5, 2011 at
Penn (Philadelphia, Pa.)
#5 Penn (5-1, 2-1 Ivy
League)
Results & Highlights: The fifth-ranked
Quakers downed ninth-ranked Williams to start the second half of
their season with a 8-1 win on Jan. 15, 2011. To record eight
points in the win over Williams, Penn won at the first through
eighth spots on the ladder. Rachael Goh (6-0)
played in the number one slot and did not miss a beat as she
continued her undefeated season. The rest of the Quaker unbeatens
followed suit as Annie Madeira, Yarden
Odinak, and Pia Trikha also won their
matches.
Penn’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 26, 2011 at
Princeton (Princeton, N.J.)
#4 Princeton (6-0, 2-0
Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The fourth-ranked
Tigers remain on their midseason break.
Princeton’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 26, 2011
vs. Penn (Princeton, N.J.)
#2 Yale (7-0, 3-0 Ivy
League)
Results & Highlights: The Bulldogs have put
together an impressive January thus far by posting a 5-0 mark that
includes Ivy League road wins at Dartmouth (6-3) and Cornell (9-0).
Most recently, second-ranked Yale downed third-ranked Trinity, 6-3.
Although Yale dropped matches at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions
against Trinity, the Bulldogs swept the No. 3 through No. 5
positions and added wins at the No. 7, No. 8 and No. 9 positions to
record the overall win. Victories from Yale freshman
Kimberly Hay and sophomore Katie
Ballaine at No. 4 and No. 7, respectively, clinched the
match.
Yale’s Next Ivy Match: :
Jan. 29, 2011 vs. Princeton (New Haven, Conn.)
