No. 8 Women's Squash Too Much For Mount Holyoke

Tuesday, January 11

South Hadley, Mass.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Mount Holyoke

No. 8 Women's Squash Too Much For Mount Holyoke

1/11/2011 7:36:00 PM | Women's Squash

By: Dartmouth

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – The eighth ranked Dartmouth College women's squash team cruised to a 9-0 victory over Mount Holyoke College on Tuesday at the Mount Holyoke Squash Courts. With their second win in a row, the Big Green improved to 4-2 on the season as the Lyons saw their six match winning streak come to a close and now have a 6-3 mark.

After dropping the first game of her number four match, sophomore Becky Lau (Toronto, Ont.) came back to top Shaheen Madraswala 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-9. Meanwhile, first year Melina Turk (Winnipeg, Man.) downed Katrina Intal 11-8, 3-11, 12-10, 11-3 at the number five position.

Two of the top 25 individually ranked players in the nation squared off in the number one match. Representing Mount Holyoke was 25^th ranked Randima Ranaweera as 5th ranked Valeria Wiens (Hanover, N.H.) was tops for Dartmouth. Wiens was successful, 11-8, 11-4, 11-8 coming from behind in the first and third games.

Dartmouth's remaining wins came from Hannah Conant (Philadelphia, Pa.), Corey Schafer (Natick, Masas.), Kensy Balch (Edmonton, Alta.), Julia Watson (Rocky Mount, N.C.), Katherine Nimmo (Wellesley, Mass.) and Heather Binnie (Rye, N.H.).

The Big Green is slated to host Trinity, Franklin & Marshall and Bates this weekend in a full weekend of matches.

Dartmouth will open its weekend against Trinity on Friday at 12:00 p.m. before facing off against Franklin & Marshall at 10 a.m. on Saturday before concluding with a match against Bates at 3 p.m. later that day.

Dartmouth 9, Mount Holyoke 0
1. Valeria Wiens (DAR) def. Randima Ranaweera (MHC) 11-8, 11-4, 11-8
2. Hannah Conant (DAR) def. Shara Robertson (MHC) 11-1, 11-3, 11-5
3. Corey Schafer (DAR) def. Tempest Bowden (MHC) 11-8, 11-6, 11-4
4. Becky Lau (DAR) def. Shaheen Madraswala (MHC) 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-9
5. Melina Turk (DAR) def. Katrina Intal (MHC) 11-8, 3-11, 12-10, 11-3
6. Kensy Balch (DAR) def. Kathryn Brummer (MHC) 11-3, 11-3, 11-2
7. Julia Watson (DAR) def. Paulina Rojek (MHC) 11-6, 11-3, 11-3
8. Katherine Nimmo (DAR) def. My-Linh Nguyen (MHC) 11-3, 11-3, 11-3
9. Heather Binnie (DAR) def. Elyse Taylor (MHC) 11-5, 11-3, 11-9