ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Dartmouth women's squash team competed at the CSA Individual Championships on the campus of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The Big Green's senior tri-captain Ashley Malenchak's (Portage la Prairie, Minn.) first round win earned her second team All-America status as Hannah Conant (Philadelphia, Pa.) was the winner of the Holleran Second Round-Main Draw. Besides Conant and Malenchak the Big Green took two other women to compete.

Conant began the day in the Holleran Cup, earning a bye before facing Joanna Scoon of Princeton. Despite winning the first game 9-3, Scoon came back to win the next three, 9-4, 9-4 and 9-6. Conant then moved into the Holleran Cup Second Round Consolation. The Big Green freshman drew Breck Haynes from Brown. Haynes won the first game, 9-6 but Conant bounced back to win the next three, 9-3, 9-3, 9-7. In her next draw Conant met up with Emilie McKenna from Bowdoin. Conant took the first game, 9-7 but McKenna came back to win the second, 9-4. Conant prevailed however and shut the door in the next two games, 9-0 and 9-0. In the semifinal match Conant drew Laura Robinson of Mount Holyoke. In the match the Big Green rookie won her first tournament game in three, 9-6, 9-4 and 9-5. The championship game had Conant and Charlene Neo of Harvard squaring off. Conant won the first game, 9-5 but Neo came back to take the second 9-4. But the third and fourth games, though close, were won by Conant, 9-7 and 9-7.

Libbey Brown (Lutherville, Md.) also competed in the Holleran Cup taking on Sara Barrett of Northeastern. Brown won her first match easily, 9-0, 9-2 and 9-6. She then advanced to face Neo. The game was easily the most hard-fought match by the Big Green all day as Brown won the first one, 9-7 but Neo came back to take the next two, 9-1 and 9-0. Brown was not to be denied as the sophomore bounced back to win the next two easily, 9-2 and 9-2.

Meanwhile on the other side of the draw senior Rebecca Loucks (Boston, Mass.) earned a bye before moving onto a match with Emilie Kraft of Vassar. Loucks won her match easily, 9-5, 9-2 and 9-1 before having to square off with teammate Brown. The senior was able to move past Brown, winning 9-4, 9-4, 9-1. Loucks then took Margaret Kent of Princeton to five games but it was Kent that came out with the victory, 6-9, 9-7, 8-10, 9-5, 9-5.

After the loss to Loucks, Brown moved onto the consolation round and was downed in her first match by Elena Laird of Bowdoin. Laird won the first game rather easily, 9-1 but Brown made her work for the second game as Laird won, 10-8. Brown bounced back in Game Three, winning 9-7 before falling the in the fourth and deciding game, 9-2.

Ashley Malenchak (Portage la Prairie, Minn.) competed in the Ramsay Cup-Main Draw taking on Jackie Moss of Princeton. Malenchak and the Big Green had fallen to Princeton twice this season by a score of 9-0 so the senior was looking to capture her first win against the Tigers. Malenchak prevailed with an amazing win, 9-1, 9-6 and 9-4. Malenchak then moved onto the Ramsay Second Round Consolation taking on Lily Lorentzen of Stanford but the Dartmouth tri-captain was unable to secure the win, losing 9-0, 9-7 and 9-3.