NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 4 Yale men's squash
team turned in a convincing 9-0 victory against No. 12 Bates on
Friday night in the first of the team's three weekend matches at
the Yale Round Robin at the Brady Squash Center.
The Bulldogs (6-0, 2-0 Ivy) swept the matches played at eight of
the nine ladder positions in the process of defeating Bates
(6-5). Kenneth Chan, Todd Ruth, Aaron Fuchs and Richard
Dodd earned 3-0 wins at the No. 1 through No. 4
positions. The bottom of the ladder was equally strong,
with Christopher Plimpton, John Fulham, Michael Maruca and Russell
Feldman also delivering sweeps at No. 6 through No.
9. After splitting the first two games of his match, No.
5 Ryan Dowd turned in two dominant games, winning 11-3 and 11-0, to
seal his victory.
Junior Michael Maruca, seeing his first match play of the
2009-2010 season, turned in a particularly dominant performance,
dropping only seven total points in his 11-2, 11-2, 11-3 victory
over Bates' Nicholas Kourides.
The Bulldogs will play two matches tomorrow. Action
begins at 10:45 a.m. against Cornell and continues at 3:45 versus
the Northeastern squad.
| Yale University
| Bates
| Winner's Score
| Winner
|
| Chan,Kenneth
| Mahan,Kush
| 11-4,11-2,11-3
| Yale University
|
| Ruth,Todd
| Greenberg,Jordan
| 11-9,11-3,11-3
| Yale University
|
| Fuchs,Aaron
| Katz,William
| 11-7,11-6,11-5
| Yale University
|
| Dodd,Richard
| Cabot III,Walter
| 11-8,11-5,11-3
| Yale University
|
| Dowd,Ryan
| Echeverria,Nicholas
| 11-4,10-12,11-3,11-0
| Yale University
|
| Plimpton,Christopher
| Lee,Dae Ro
| 11-5,11-9,11-8
| Yale University
|
| Fulham,John
| Williams,Patrick
| 11-8,11-3,11-0
| Yale University
|
| Maruca,Michael
| Kourides,Nicholas
| 11-2,11-2,11-3
| Yale University
|
| Feldman,Russell
| Bedell,Eric
| 11-6,11-7,11-8
| Yale University
|
| Clayman,Samuel
| Keating,R. J.
| 11-9,4-11,11-4,11-3
| Yale University
|
report filed by Alex Milvae '12, Yale Sports Publicity
