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Women's Squash Update 2
Photo courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League holds the top
four spots and seven of the top-10 overall in the latest Dunlop
Women’s College Squash Association (CSA) Team Rankings.
Harvard, Yale, Penn and Princeton occupy No. 1 through 4, Cornell
comes in at No. 7, Dartmouth is No. 8 and Brown is No. 10. Columbia
is ranked No. 15.
Yale and Harvard are tied in the Ivy League standings at 3-0
apiece, while Penn and Cornell are both 2-1 on the year. The
Bulldogs are 12-0 overall and Harvard is 10-0.
The CSA Team Championships will take place from Friday-Saturday,
Feb. 24-26, in Cambridge, Mass. The CSA Individual Championships
will be held in Amherst, Mass., from March 2-4.
Here is a team-by-team look at the Ivy League squads this
season:
Brown (8-3, 1-2 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The No. 10-ranked Bears
opened their Ivy League slate with an 8-1 win over No. 15 Columbia
before suffering consecutive conference shutouts to No. 7 Cornell
and No. 2 Yale. Freshman Katherine Elliott-Moskwa
came the closest to a victory against the Big Red, falling in five
games at number five. In its non-conference slate, Brown took down
No. 11 Williams, 6-3, No. 17 Amherst, 9-0, No. 19 Bowdoin, 9-0, and
No. 21 Colby, 8-1.
Brown’s Return to the Courts: Saturday, Feb.
4 at Penn
Columbia (5-6, 0-3 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Lions are ranked No.
15 in the latest CSA Team poll. It has been feast or famine for
Columbia, as seven of the team’s 11 matches have been decided
by a score of 9-0. The Lions are 5-2 in those contests. In Ivy
League action, Columbia has fallen to No. 7 Cornell, 9-0, No. 10
Brown, 8-1, and No. 2 Yale, 9-0. Sophomore Katie
Quan was the lone winner for the Lions in Ivy League
action, as she bested her opponent in four sets in the
squad’s loss to Brown. Columbia’s non-conference
schedule has been highlighted by 9-0 wins over No. 19 Bowdoin and
No. 22 Connecticut College.
Columbia’s Return to the Courts: Friday,
Feb. 3 vs. Harvard
Cornell (8-3, 2-1 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: Cornell is on a
three-match winning streak and ranked No. 7 in the latest CSA Team
poll. The Big Red also has a five-match win streak under its belt
this season. All eight of Cornell’s victories have been by a
final score of 9-0. In Ivy League action, the Big Red defeated No.
15 Columbia, 9-0, and No. 10 Brown, 9-0, and lost to No. 2 Yale,
9-0. After helping the team sweep No. 16 Hamilton and No. 9 Bates,
junior Jaime Laird and sophomore Jesse
Pacheco are both 7-2 on the year while freshman
Danielle Letourneau is 6-3.
Cornell’s Return to the Courts: Friday, Feb.
3 vs. Franklin & Marshall
Dartmouth (3-4, 0-3 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: After a three-match
losing streak, Dartmouth has won two of its past three contests to
improve to 3-4 overall. The Big Green, ranked No. 8 in the latest
CSA Team poll, is 0-3 in Ivy League action with 9-0 losses to No. 4
Princeton and No. 3 Penn and an 8-1 defeat at the hands of No. 1
Harvard. Sophomore Katherine Nimmo is the lone
Dartmouth player to earn an Ivy League victory, a straight-set win
at number nine in the team’s loss to the Crimson. Nimmo leads
the team with a 4-1 non-conference record while freshmen
Oona Morris and Helena Darling
are each 3-1 in non-conference action this season.
Dartmouth’s Return to the Courts: Saturday,
Feb. 4 at Cornell
Harvard (10-0, 3-0 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: Harvard is No. 1 in the
latest CSA Team poll and tied with Yale for first-place in the Ivy
League with three wins against zero losses. The Crimson’s 3-0
Ivy League mark includes an 8-1 win over No. 8 Dartmouth, a 7-2 win
over No. 3 Penn and a 5-4 win over No. 4 Princeton. Harvard has
shut out five opponents and has lost just 11 games over the course
of the season. The Crimson boasts three players who are undefeated
this season in junior Sarah Mumanachit (8-0),
freshman Megan Murray (6-0) and junior
Laura Gemmell (6-0) as well as multiple members
who have just one loss, led by freshmen Haley
Mendez (9-1) and Julianne Chu (8-1).
Harvard’s Return to the Courts: Friday, Feb.
3 at Columbia
Penn (4-2, 2-1 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: Penn comes in at No. 3
in the latest CSA Team rankings. The Quakers’ lone League
loss came at the hands of No. 2 Harvard, a 7-2 setback. Junior
co-captain Pia Trikha and sophomore Chloe
Blacker were Penn’s two winners against the Crimson;
Trikha is 4-1 on the season and 3-0 against Ivy League opponents.
Freshman Leslie Gill and sophomore
Courtney Jones are each 5-1 on the year. Penn
handed No. 8 Dartmouth a 9-0 loss and defeated No. 11 Williams and
No. 18 Franklin & Marshall by the same score. The Quakers are
coming off a hard-fought, 5-4 loss to No. 5 Trinity.
Penn’s Return to the Courts: Saturday, Feb 4
vs. Brown; vs. Stanford
Princeton (5-2, 1-2 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: Princeton is No. 4 in
the latest CSA Team rankings. The Tigers’ two losses have
come to No. 3 Penn, 6-3, and No. 1 Harvard, 5-4. Against the
top-ranked Crimson, sophomore Libby Eyre, freshman Nicole Bunyan,
junior Casey Cortes and sophomore Caroline
Feeley all picked up victories. The match came down to the
number four contest, as sophomore Lexi Saunders
took Harvard’s Haley Mendez to five games
before eventually succumbing. All five of Princeton’s wins
have been shutouts, including a 9-0 victory over No. 8
Dartmouth.
Princeton’s Return to the Courts: Friday,
Feb. 3 vs. Stanford
Yale (12-0, 3-0 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Bulldogs are ranked
No. 2 in the country in the latest CSA Team poll and are tied with
Harvard for first-place in the Ivy League. Yale’s three Ivy
League wins have come at the expense of Cornell (9-0), Columbia
(9-0) and Brown (9-0). Ten of Yale’s 12 victories have been
of the shutout variety, including non-conference wins over No. 5
Trinity and No. 6 Stanford. Sophomore defending national champion
Millie Tomlinson, the No. 1-ranked player in the
country, is 8-0 on the year and has dropped just one game this
season.
Yale’s Return to the Courts: Saturday, Feb.
4 at Princeton
