Dartmouth Women's Squash Splits Against Amherst and Williams

Sunday, January 17

Williamstown, Mass.

12:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Williams

Dartmouth Women's Squash Splits Against Amherst and Williams

1/17/2010 7:00:00 AM | Women's Squash

By: Dartmouth

AMHERST & WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The ninth-ranked Dartmouth women's squash team traveled to Massachusetts for a pair of matches against Amherst and Williams College on Sunday. The Big Green came out on top 9-0 over Amherst but dropped a narrow contest, 5-4 to Williams.

In the No. 1 spot Valeria Wiens (Hanover, N.H.) took on Hayley Milbourn in the top women's match. The 18th-ranked individual in the nation, Weins proved to be too much for the 102nd-ranked Milbourn. Milbourn got better as the match went on against Weins, taking seven points off Dartmouth's top player in the third and final game.

In the number two match, Corey Schafer (Natick, Mass.) was taken to 13-11 in the first game by Chandler Lusardi. Shafer narrowly won the second, 11-7, before Lusardi was forced to retire with an injury in the third game.

Dartmouth 9, Amherst 0
1) Valeria Wiens (D) def. Milbourn (A) 3-0 (11-2, 11-1, 11-7)
2) Corey Schafer (D) def. Lusardi (A) (13-11, 11-7, injury ret.)
3) Becky Lau (D) def. Savage (A) 3-0 (11-2, 11-8, 11-3)
4) Hannah Conant (D) def. Scheidt (A) 3-0 (11-5, 11-2, 11-3)
5) Libbey Brown (D) def. Piper (A) 3-0 (11-2, 11-4, 11-7)
6) Maura Doherty (D) def. Demkin (A) 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-6)
7) Rebecca Loucks (D) def. Bell (A) 3-0 (11-0, 11-1, 11-0)
8) Julia Watson (D) def. McNeill (A) 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 12-10)
9) Caroline Lindseth (D) def. Wheeler (A) 3-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-6)

In the match against Williams, the Ephs took wins at the No. 3, 6 and 9 spots to start the match off, each with four-game victories. Rebecca Lau (Toronoto, Ont.) won her first game 11-6 but her opponent Courtney Bogle charged ahead winning the next three games at No. 3. Maura Doherty won the second game to tie up the match against Caroline Henry but Henry rallied to defeat Doherty, 11-6, 11-4 in the next two.

With Williams up 3-0 in the match, the Big Green lost at No. 2 as the Ephs went up 4-0. At No. 5, Libbey Brown lost the first game but rallied to win the next three by a score of 11-8, each. Williams freshman Hannah Kaemmer also could not close, going up match ball in the fourth game, before losing six consecutive points to a determined Julia Watson (Rocky Mount, N.C.), as Watson was victorious in the final game by a score of 11-8.

With the match score at 4-2, the Ephs needed one more victory in the final three matches in order to defeat the Big Green. However Sarah Loucks (Boston, Mass.) kept Dartmouth in by taking a three-game win at No. 7 while Hannah Conant (Philadelphia, Pa.) dropped the first game to Laura Henry and then took the the next three games. With the match tied at 4-4, the No. 1 match became very important at the Eph's fourth-ranked Toby Eyre came from one-game deficit to Wiens and win the deciding match for the Ephs.

Williams 5, Dartmouh 4
1). Eyre, Toby (W) def. Wiens, Valeria (D) 3-1 (10-12,11-8,11-6,11-5)
2). Coxe, Jennifer (W) def. Schafer, Corey (D) 3-0 (11-9,14-12,12-10)
3). Bogle, Courtney (W) def. Lau, Rebecca (D) 3-1 (6-11,12-10,11-3,11-8)
4). Conant, Hannah (D) def. Henry, Laura (W) 3-1 (3-11,11-6,11-3,11-4)
5). Brown, Libbey (D) def. Rubin,Alli (W) 3-1 (8-11,11-8,11-8,11-8)
6). Henry, Caroline (W) def. Doherty, Maura (D) 3-0 (11-8,7-11,11-6,11-4)
7). Loucks, Sarah (D) def. Kaemmer, Carolyn (W) 3-0 (11-4,11-3,11-5)
8). Watson, Julia (D) def. Kaemmer, Hannah (W) 3-2 (8-11,10-12,11-7,12-10,11-8)
9). Reiser, Julia (W) def. Lindseth, Caroline (D) 3-1 (12-10,11-7,8-11,11-3)