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Volume CXXXII, Number 11 |
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Colby gets squashed!
ALLIE YANIKOSKI
STAFF WRITER
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| This Polar Bear winds up for a return smash. (Hans Law, Bowdoin Orient) |
After easily defeating Colby 9-0 on November 25th, the men's squash team improved its record to 3-1, two weeks into the competitive season.
"The Colby match was dangerous because of the rivalry, but the team played well throughout the lineup, and thus the 9-0 score," said Coach Tomas Fortson.
Fortson especially highlights junior co-captain Greg Clement and first-year Bruce Saltzman's performances against Colby.
"Clement played well to dominate Colby's good number one player Rahul Singh by 9-1, 9-1, 9-1," said Fortson. "Saltzman did well to win the day's toughest match at the number four position."
Clement, Jon Crowell '05, Lawrence Delasotta '04, Saltzman, Eric Toan '05, Doug Weeden '06, Grant White '04) Mike Fensterstock '04, and senior co-captain George Hubbard, respectively, played the top nine positions of the match, each capturing an individual victory.
The Polar Bears also earned victories in two out of three matches in the Dartmouth Round Robin competition on November 22nd and 23rd, losing to host Dartmouth 9-0, then defeating Tufts 9-0 and Stanford 8-1.
Clement, Saltzman, Weeden, Hubbard, White, and Chris Metcalf '05 led the Bears' triumphs over Tufts and Stanford. Delasotta, Toan, and George MacLeod '05 rounded out the roster against Tufts, replaced by Crowell, Fensterstock, and Nick Adams '06 against Stanford.
"We were favorites versus Stanford, Tufts, and Colby, and the outcome was not surprising," said Coach Fortson. "The Dartmouth team is excellent-number six in the country. We needed to play very, very well to come up with an upset and we did not."
However, Fortson remains optimistic. "We will have other opportunities this season versus teams ranked ahead of us, and hopefully we'll perform better then."
Tomorrow, the Bears will face rival Williams, currently ranked tenth nationally, followed by Navy on Sunday. "Against Williams, we hope for an upset," said Fortson. "The Navy match is the first of many this season against teams ranked at our level, [which] are the ones we really want to win."
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