Looking to Grab Outright Ivy Title, No. 1 Women's Squash Travels to No. 5 Yale
Pictured: Natasha Kingshott is undefeated this season at 8-0
overall and 7-0 at the No. 5 position.
Photo courtesy: Gil Talbot Photography
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Ivy League Standings
The Particulars:
No. 1 Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to face No. 5 Yale in
the Crimson's final match of the regular season. The Crimson, which
has already clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, will
look to win the crown outright with a victory over the Bulldogs.
Harvard heads into the weekend with an 8-0 record and is 5-0 in the
Ancient Eight. Yale, meanwhile, is 7-3 overal and owns a 3-2
Ivy League record.
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compete against Yale is $11.95.
Last Time Out:
The top-ranked Crimson earned a weekend sweep at home
against No. 3 Penn and No. 4 Princeton, the defending national
champion. Harvard topped the Quakers, 8-1, Saturday, and
tamed the Tigers, 6-3, Sunday. Against Princeton, Harvard
picked up wins at the top two spots by Laura Gemmell (No. 1) and
Nirasha Guruge (No. 2). Natasha Kingshott earned a victory at the
No. 5 slot, while Johanna Snyder, Sarah Mumanachit and Bethan
Williams took care of positions 7-9.
About Harvard:
The Crimson enters the weekend with a 8-0 overall record and is
5-0 in the Ivy League. Freshman Laura Gemmell, ranked third
in the most recent College Squash Association individual poll,
stands at 7-0 at the No. 1 spot, while classmate Natasha Kingshott
is 8-0 verall and 7-0 at the No. 5 position. Two other
Harvard players are undefeated at 8-0, as co-captain Johanna Snyder
has won all of her matches, including five at the No. 7 position,
and Sarah Mumanachit who is 4-0 at the No. 8 spot.
About Yale:
The Bulldogs are coming off an 8-1 win over Brown in Providence,
R.I., Feb. 6. In other Ivy matches this season, Yale has
defeated Dartmouth, 9-0, and Cornell, 7-2, while the team has lost
to Penn, 8-1, and Princeton, 5-4. In seven home matches this
year, the Bulldogs own a 6-1 record, the only loss coming against
No. 2 Trinity by a score of 5-4.
Last Year’s Meeting:
Harvard and Yale last met at the Barnaby Courts in the
regular-season finale of the 2008-09 season. The Crimson
emerged with a 6-3 victory, as Nirasha Guruge (No. 1), Alisha
Mashruwala (No. 2), Bethan Williams (No. 5), Johanna Snyder (No.
6), Cece Cortes (No. 7) and Sandra Mumanachit (No. 8) earned wins
for Harvard.
Leader of the Pack:
With one weekend left in the regular season of the 2009-10
campaign, the Crimson finds itself sitting atop the College Squash
Association national rankings and the Ivy League standings with a
8-0 overall mark.
Dependable Dozen:
Through Harvard’s first six matches of the season, it has
not dropped a match at the No. 1, 5, 7, 8, 9 or 10 positions. The
Crimson is a combined 48-0 at those six slots. Harvard has had 12
different players see action at those positions this season.
17 and Growing:
After defeating Princeton last weekend, the Harvard women’s
squash program has captured 17 Ivy League titles. Previously,
Harvard had last won the title in 2005-06. The Crimson claimed the
crown every year from 1991-92 to 1996-97.
Up Next:
The Crimson will ready for the CSA National Team Championships,
set to be held in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 26-28.
