Women's Squash Picks Up First Win at Drexel, 5-4

Friday, January 9

Philadelphia, Pa.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Drexel

Women's Squash Picks Up First Win at Drexel, 5-4

1/9/2015 9:26:00 PM | Women's Squash

By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA — The No. 10 Dartmouth women's squash team picked up its first win of the season, defeating Drexel, 5-4, on Friday evening.

The Big Green secured the matches at 5-1. The contest was played using a five-court system with only two rounds of five matches.

In the first round of matches, senior Oona Morris secured a close 3-0 win at number six. Freshman Rebecca Brownell (8) and senior Helena Darling (4) had edgy starts before coming away with 3-1 wins to put Dartmouth in front 3-0.

Junior Tori Dewey (2) won the first game but lost the next three making it 3-1 Dartmouth after the opening round matches.

Sophomore Hanna Balcha won the exhibition match, 3-1.

In the final round of play, sophomore Madeline Fraser (9) and freshman Zainab Molani (7) won their respective matches, 3-0. Zainab's win securing the win for the Big Green who took 5-1 advantage after her performance.

Senior Sarah Caughey (5) lost a close match 3-1 and sophomore Jacqueline Barnes (1) lost in a very close decision, 3-0. The final game of the contest featured junior Lydie McKenzie (3), who dropped an incredibly close match going the distance 11-7in the fourth game.

Dartmouth will return to action on Saturday when they meet Penn at 12 p.m.

	Drexel	Dartmouth	Game Scores	Match Score
1	Hayley Hughes	Jacqueline Barnes	11-6, 11-9, 14-12	3-0
2	Ryan Morgan	Tori Dewey	9-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-7	3-1
3	Elisa Money	Lydie McKenzie	9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7	3-1
4	Kaitlyn Money	Helena Darling	11-5, 9-11, 6-11, 4-11	1-3
5	Mary Fung-A-Fat	Sarah Caughey	9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9	3-1
6	Laura Rahauser	Oona Morris	6-11, 10-12, 7-11	0-3
7	Kiran Vasudevan	Zainab Molani	9-11, 5-11, 9-11	0-3
8	Abigail Kaplan	Rebecca Brownell	11-8, 5-11, 3-11, 5-11	1-3
9	Courtney Sabo	Madeline Fraser	4-11, 6-11, 1-11	0-3