Word: squashing
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While the Harvard men’s squash team couldn’t wrest the Ivy crown from Princeton for its 11th title in 13 years or bring home its first national championship since 1996-97, it still finished its season on a triumphant note...
...fourth-seeded Crimson (6-3, 4-2 Ivy) edged Yale 5-4 in the third-place match at the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships, avenging its loss to the Bulldogs in its regular-season finale—its first home loss to Yale since 1961. Harvard was relegated to the consolation match after falling 8-1 in the semifinals to juggernaut Trinity, which went on to defeat the Tigers for its sixth consecutive national championship...
...Fortunately, I was playing some of my best squash all year, so I was able to keep the ball nice and tight up front—tight to the wall, tight to the tin,” Broadbent said...
...first time in a long time, the Harvard women’s squash team had something to prove in its own league this year. With the addition of two hotshot freshmen, Yale had leapfrogged into the No. 2 slot in the preseason national rankings behind defending champion Trinity. Meanwhile, the extraordinarily young Crimson was left in third, despite having captured its second consecutive Ivy League championship in the 2001-02 season...
Hall should return in top form after being slowed by the flu at the end of the season. Her illness forced her to withdraw from the College Squash Association Individual Championships, but Hall still managed to finish the season as the No. 4 intercollegiate player and earn her third consecutive first-team All-Ivy selection...