NEW
HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's squash team opened its regular season
schedule with a
convincing
9-0 victory over Williams College Friday night at the Brady Squash
Center. Yale (1-0) only dropped two
total
games as a team, with 3-0 wins at the No. 1 through No. 8
positions.
Freshman
Kenneth Chan began his collegiate career with a dominant
performance at the No. 1 position, dropping only five combined
points in the first two games. Fellow freshmen Richard Dodd and
Hywel Robinson, playing in the No. 4
and 5 positions respectively, also earned their first wins at
Yale.
Senior captain Todd Ruth earned a victory over Ethan Buchsbaum
in a hard fought match at the No. 2 position. Sophomore
Samuel Clayman overcame a 2-1 deficit to earn the victory over
Jeremy Herrmann at the No. 9 position, winning the fourth game 11-7
before emerging victorious in a thrilling 15-13 fifth game.
The Bulldogs will next be in action on Dec. 5 when they travel
to Philadelphia to take on the Penn Quakers at 11 a.m.
|
| Yale University
| Williams
| Score
|
| 1S
| Chan,Kenneth
| Morris,William
| 11-2,11-3,11-7
|
| 2S
| Ruth,Todd
| Buchsbaum,Ethan
| 12-10,11-7,11-7
|
| 3S
| Roberts,John
| Gruner,Will
| 11-4,11-7,15-13
|
| 4S
| Dodd,Richard
| Henze,Christian
| 11-5,11-3,11-5
|
| 5S
| Robinson,Hywel
| Yaros,Bernard
| 11-5,11-5,11-5
|
| 6S
| Berner,Robert
| Drobetsky,Julian
| 11-9,13-11,11-3
|
| 7S
| Plimpton,Christopher
| Marks,Nick
| 11-8,11-6,11-2
|
| 8S
| Dowd,Ryan
| Greaves-Tunnell,Alexander
| 11-4,11-2,11-9
|
| 9S
| Clayman,Samuel
| Herrmann,Jeremy
| 11-9,3-11,10-12,11-7,15-13
|
report by Alex Milvae '12, Yale Sports Publicity
