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Senior Libby Eynon, who never lost a regular season dual match, completed the squash triple crown for the women, winning the women's individual national championship. Junior Tal Ben-Shachar picked up the individual national title with a victory over teammate Daniel Ezra in the final as well...
Daniel Ezra picked up where Hu left off, winning the top rookie award in squash. Ezra placed second to junior teammate Tal Ben-Shachar at the squash individual national championships...
...What carried us through was our refusal to give up, our refusal to die," said junior captain Tal Ben-Shachar, who would go on to win the NISRA National Singles Championship the week after the team triumph. "Most of the matches against Princeton [in the final] were tightly fought, but they always broke. It was inevitable. That's how we prepared--they were unable to endure the fast pace of the matches. The satisfaction was immense...
...championship match against Princeton contrasted with the national title match a year ago between Harvard and Yale. That match, which the Crimson pulled out 5-4 by virtue of a thrilling, come-from-behind 3-2 game victory by Ben-Shachar, went down in squash history as one for the ages--comparable in racket history to the 1981 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final...
Five Crimson players were named to the all-Ivy team, the most from any school in the league. Junior Ted Bruenner, sophomore Andrew Walter, and freshmen Rishaad Bilmoria and Danny Ezra along with Ben-Shachar (for the second time), made the squad...