Crimson Sweeps to Squash Title; Briggs Grabs Top Place in Nation

You had to be there to believe it.

Harvard dominated the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament at Navy this weekend in an unprecedented fashion. The Crimson took all three divisions in the tournament for the second year in a row and the only players left in the final round were from Harvard for the first time in the tournament's history.

In addition, the Crimson placed three players in the top ten rankings of the nation. Peter Briggs, for the second year in a row, emerged from the season ranked number one nationally. Andy Weigand, number two for the Crimson, was named number two in the country while Glen Whitman ended up tenth.

Three Divisions

The tournament had A, B and C divisions and each school entered its best six men, two in each division. So Harvard's numbers one and two, Briggs and Weigand, entered the A competition; three and four, Whitman and Niel Vosters, were in the B field and Rob Sedgwick and Peter Blasier, at five and six, played for the Crimson in the C division.

Each field had 32 or more entries and all competitors faced four or five opponents before reaching the final round.

On Saturday, the night before the final round, the Crimson racquetmen held a victory banquet celebrating their sweep of every match.

Weigand said last night that Sunday's matches were pressure-free and a lot of fun for the Crimson. "We all played hard but it wasn't cut-throaty or tense like it would have been had we been playing other people," he said.

The final matches turned out the way they were supposed to as Briggs downed Weigand, 3-1, Whitman took out Vosters, 3-0, and Sedgwick blanked Blasier, 3-0.

"It couldn't have been better." Weigand exulted. "No matter who won we knew we had all won."