PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Lucy Beecroft, captain of the Yale Squash team and the No. 3 seed at the CSA Individual Championships, highlighted a busy day for the Bulldogs at the national tournament.

Beecroft, Yale's only entry in the A Draw on the new courts of the Penn Squash Center, registered her school's first win of the day by sweeping Emma Jinks of Virginia, 11-9, 11-6 and 11-3. However, she than collided with Harvard's Hanna Moataz, and the No. 5 seed pulled off the upset.

Helen Teegan (17^th seed), Elisabeth Ross (28), Brianna Jefferson (41), Gigi Yeung (55) and Nikita Joshi (73) were also competing in the B draw. Teegan and Ross both won opening round matches in three games before falling in the quarters.
 
YALE RESULTS
March 6
Lucy Beecroft def. Emma Jinks (Virginia), 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 11-3)
Lucy Beecroft lost to Hanna Moataz (Harvard), 3-0 (11-8, 12-10, 11-5)
Gigi Yeung lost to Anna Hughes (Drexel), 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-7)
Brianna Jefferson lost to India Stephenson (Princeton), 3-2 (11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 11-7)
Helen Teegan def. Eloise Nimoityn (Dickinson), 3-0 (11-5, 11-1, 11-3)
Helen Teegan lost to Ashley Manning (Penn), 11-6, 12-14, 4-11, 11-7, 11-6)
Nikita Joshi lost to Luca Polgar (Bates), 3-1 (11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 11-3)
Elisabeth Ross def. Erika Parker-Schmidt (Bates), 3-0 (11-9, 11-3, 11-3)
Elisabeth Ross lost to Hannah Craig (Harvard), 3-0 (11-8, 11-6, 11-8)