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#10 Princeton Drops Another Squash Heartbreaker, Falls 6-3 To #6 Penn
February 01, 2017 | Men's Squash
Progress can be painful when it doesn't happen as quickly as you'd like, and the 10th-ranked Princeton men's squash team is living through that process right now.
The Tigers showed both fight and improvement Wednesday night against the sixth-ranked Penn Quakers, but they couldn't put together enough points late in matches to pull off the Ivy League upset. Penn went 4-0 in five-game matches to claim a 6-3 victory over a Princeton team making its return from the finals break.
This is the second Ivy League match in three weeks that Princeton has dropped in heartbreaking fashion to a higher-ranked Ivy League team; the Tigers opened the 2017 Ivy League season with a 5-4 loss to Dartmouth. While the Tigers left both matches disappointed, the progress from the last year is more than evident in the scores. In 2016, Princeton took a grand total of 20 individual games and two matches in 8-1 losses to both Penn and Dartmouth.
This year, Princeton took 38 games and seven matches. Progress, but still slower than the Tigers would like.
Sophomore Cody Cortes remained undefeated in Ivy League play when he got the night started with a 3-0 win at the No. 4 spot. Penn took a 3-1 win at No. 2, and then swept a pair of five-game wins on adjacent courts to grab a 3-1 lead. A 3-0 win at the ninth spot moved that lead to 4-1 and seemed to put Penn in full control of the match.
Princeton answered in impressive fashion, starting on Court 1. Freshman Adhitya Raghavan defeated 2016 first-team All-American Marwan Mahmoud in four games to keep Princeton alive, and sophomore Spencer Anton rallied late in the fourth for a 12-10 closer to clinch a win at the sixth spot. That left the drama on Courts 2 and 4, both of which would go the distance. Tiger freshman Gabe Morgan fought back from a fifth-game deficit at No. 3 to even the match at 9-9, but Hayes Murphy had the final answers in an 11-9 win that clinched the win, and B.G. Lemmon won a 12-10 thriller in the fourth game at No. 8 en route to a 3-2 win in the finale.
The Tigers will get another chance at a statement win this Saturday when they head to New Haven to play the reigning national champion Yale Bulldogs at 1 pm.
#6 PENN 6, #10 PRINCETON 3
1 – Adhitya Raghavan (Prin) d. Marwan Mahmoud 6, 9, (3), 5
2 – Derek Hsue (Penn) d. Clark Doyle (6), 9, 7, 2
3 – Hayes Murphy (Penn) d. Gabe Morgan (8), 11, (8), 7, 9
4 – Cody Cortes (Prin) d. Anders Larson 7, 8, 7
5 – Spencer Anton (Prin) d. James Watson (3), 7, 3, 10
6 – David Yacobucci (Penn) d. Abhimanyu Shah 5, (6), (11), 6, 5
7 – Max Reed (Penn) d. Shehab Thabet (6), 8, 7, (10), 3
8 – B.G. Lemmon (Penn) d. Komron Shayegan 6, (9), (11), 10, 1
9 – Jonathan Zeitels (Penn) d. Ben Leizman 6, 5, 7
The Tigers showed both fight and improvement Wednesday night against the sixth-ranked Penn Quakers, but they couldn't put together enough points late in matches to pull off the Ivy League upset. Penn went 4-0 in five-game matches to claim a 6-3 victory over a Princeton team making its return from the finals break.
This is the second Ivy League match in three weeks that Princeton has dropped in heartbreaking fashion to a higher-ranked Ivy League team; the Tigers opened the 2017 Ivy League season with a 5-4 loss to Dartmouth. While the Tigers left both matches disappointed, the progress from the last year is more than evident in the scores. In 2016, Princeton took a grand total of 20 individual games and two matches in 8-1 losses to both Penn and Dartmouth.
This year, Princeton took 38 games and seven matches. Progress, but still slower than the Tigers would like.
Sophomore Cody Cortes remained undefeated in Ivy League play when he got the night started with a 3-0 win at the No. 4 spot. Penn took a 3-1 win at No. 2, and then swept a pair of five-game wins on adjacent courts to grab a 3-1 lead. A 3-0 win at the ninth spot moved that lead to 4-1 and seemed to put Penn in full control of the match.
Princeton answered in impressive fashion, starting on Court 1. Freshman Adhitya Raghavan defeated 2016 first-team All-American Marwan Mahmoud in four games to keep Princeton alive, and sophomore Spencer Anton rallied late in the fourth for a 12-10 closer to clinch a win at the sixth spot. That left the drama on Courts 2 and 4, both of which would go the distance. Tiger freshman Gabe Morgan fought back from a fifth-game deficit at No. 3 to even the match at 9-9, but Hayes Murphy had the final answers in an 11-9 win that clinched the win, and B.G. Lemmon won a 12-10 thriller in the fourth game at No. 8 en route to a 3-2 win in the finale.
The Tigers will get another chance at a statement win this Saturday when they head to New Haven to play the reigning national champion Yale Bulldogs at 1 pm.
#6 PENN 6, #10 PRINCETON 3
1 – Adhitya Raghavan (Prin) d. Marwan Mahmoud 6, 9, (3), 5
2 – Derek Hsue (Penn) d. Clark Doyle (6), 9, 7, 2
3 – Hayes Murphy (Penn) d. Gabe Morgan (8), 11, (8), 7, 9
4 – Cody Cortes (Prin) d. Anders Larson 7, 8, 7
5 – Spencer Anton (Prin) d. James Watson (3), 7, 3, 10
6 – David Yacobucci (Penn) d. Abhimanyu Shah 5, (6), (11), 6, 5
7 – Max Reed (Penn) d. Shehab Thabet (6), 8, 7, (10), 3
8 – B.G. Lemmon (Penn) d. Komron Shayegan 6, (9), (11), 10, 1
9 – Jonathan Zeitels (Penn) d. Ben Leizman 6, 5, 7
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