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Men's Squash Update 2
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League men’s
squash teams have returned to the courts to start the 2011 portion
of their schedules. With each of the seven teams in contention for
the 2011 Ivy League men’s squash title having played at least
two Ivy matches, the intensity is sure to increase as the squads
look to capture the Jack Barnaby Trophy, which is given annually to
the Ivy men’s squash champion.
A quick look at the standings shows Yale and Princeton tied at the
top. Yale has a 3-0 League record to go along with a 7-1 overall
mark, while Princeton is 2-0 in Ivy play and 5-0 overall. Harvard
(2-1) and Cornell (2-2) each have two Ivy wins, while Penn (1-2),
Dartmouth (0-2) and Brown (0-3) still have time to influence where
the 2011 title will ultimately end up. Overall, all seven of those
teams have winning records on the year, and first year varsity
program Columbia also checks in with a 5-1 mark.
The next Ivy League contest will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 26
when Princeton plays host to Penn at 5:00 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 the Tigers look
to remain unbeaten in the Ivy League. Dating back to the inaugural
season of Ivy men’s squash in 1957, the Ivy champion has
finished with an undefeated mark in 49 of the 53 seasons, while the
other four season’s have seen two or three one-loss teams
share the title. The most recent tie occurred in 2006 when
Harvard, Princeton and Yale all finished with 5-1 marks in Ivy
play.
Six Ivy League squads cracked the top-10 in the latest set of
2010-2011 Dunlop Men’s College Squash Team Rankings, which
were released on Jan. 12., led by second-ranked Yale and
third-ranked Princeton. Cornell is ranked fifth, followed closely
by sixth-ranked Harvard and seventh-ranked Dartmouth. Ranked 10th,
Penn rounds out the contingent of top-10 Ivy teams.
Complete men’s CSA team rankings
Complete men’s CSA individual
rankings
What follows is a brief team-by-team look at the Ivy League squads
as they pursue the Jack Barnaby Trophy and then set their sights on
the Collegiate Squash Association’s (CSA) Men’ Team
Championship, which Harvard will play host to on Feb. 25-27 in
Cambridge, Mass.
#13 Brown (4-3,
0-3 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Bears opened their
second half of the season with dominating wins over Bowdoin (7-2)
and Amherst (9-0). In the two wins, the Bears were especially
strong at the top of the lineup with Brad
Thompson, Adrian Leanza and Blake
Reinson winning both matches at the No. one, two and three
positions.
Brown’s Next Ivy Match: Feb. 5, 2011 at
Yale (New Haven, Conn.)
#27 Columbia
(5-1)
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 4-0 record at the Pioneer Valley
Invitational on Jan. 14 – 16 in South Hadley, Mass. The four
wins included 7-2 victories over Connecticut College, Colby and
Hobart as well as a 5-4 win against 22nd-ranked Wesleyan. In the
Wesleyan victory, Tony Zou, Theo
Buchsbaum, Alec Goldberg, Andrew
Tan and Anchit Nayar earned the Lion
wins.
Columbia’s Next Match: Jan. 21 vs. Navy
(New York, N.Y.)
#5 Cornell (4-2,
2-2 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Big Red returned
from break with matches against Yale and Western Ontario. Cornell
fell to the Bulldogs, 6-3, but rebounded to defeat the Mustangs,
6-3. Nick Sachvie recorded a tough four-set win at
the No. 1 position to help propel the Big Red to the win over
Western Ontario.
Cornell’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 29, 2011 vs.
Dartmouth (Ithaca, N.Y.)
#7 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, 7-2. But Dartmouth rebounded to post a 3-1 mark since
that loss to Yale, including shutout wins over Amherst (9-0),
Franklin & Marshall (9-0) and Bates (9-0).
Dartmouth’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 29, 2011
at Cornell (Ithaca, N.Y.)
#6 Harvard (4-2,
2-1 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Crimson returned
from break by recording an 8-1 win over eighth-ranked Western
Ontario in a match played in Toronto at the Canadian National
Squash Academy. In the win, the Crimson used straight set wins by
Gary Power, Nigel Koh and
J. Reed Endresen en route to the overall victory.
Harvard’s Next Ivy Match: Feb. 5, 2011 at
Penn (Philadelphia, Pa.)
#10 Penn (4-1,
1-2 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The 10th-ranked Quakers
edged 11th-ranked Williams, 5-4, at home to start the second half
of their season on Jan. 15, 2011. The win was keyed by
James Clark and William Browne.
Clark picked up the win at the No. 2 position, coming back from a
two games to one deficit. Brown lost the first game in his match
11-2, but stormed back and took the next three to take the No. 5
slot for the Quakers.
Penn’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 26, 2011 at
Princeton (Princeton, N.J.)
#3 Princeton
(5-0, 2-0 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The third-ranked Tigers
remain on their midseason break.
Princeton’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 26, 2011
vs. Penn (Princeton, N.J.)
#2 Yale (7-1,
3-0 Ivy League)
Results & Highlights: The Bulldogs returned
from break on Jan. 7 and promptly strung together a five-match
winning streak that included victories over Amherst (9-0), Williams
(9-0), Dartmouth (7-2), Western Ontario (7-2) and Cornell (6-3).
The winning streak set up a showdown of unbeatens in Hartford,
Conn. on Jan. 19 when the top-ranked Trinity Bantams (now winners
of 230 straight) played host to the second-ranked Bulldogs. But the
Bantams ultimately came away with a 7-2 win. Yale’s
individual wins against Trinty were recorded by John
Roberts and Robert Berner at the eighth
and ninth positions.
Yale’s Next Ivy Match: Jan. 29, 2011 vs.
Princeton (New Haven, Conn.)
