Trinity Bests Harvard Once Again

The Harvard men’s squash team advanced to the semifinals of the CSA Championships on Friday afternoon with a 6-3 victory over Penn, but could not overcome No. 1 Trinity on Saturday in a 3-6 loss.

Although the Crimson was scheduled to play Yale in a consolation match on Sunday to determine third and fourth place, the College Squash Association committee decided that since Harvard was already scheduled to play Yale on Wednesday in a match to decide the Ivy title, that match will, in effect, be counted twice to decide the finish for the CSA Nationals.

“The team played really well against Trinity—we just came up a bit short,” captain Will Broadbent said. “I was proud of how we played and I think we have their respect. I’m not disappointed. On Wednesday, we have a shot at getting a share of the Ivy title, so it’s going to be a successful season in my book if we do that.”

HARVARD 3, TRINITY 6

Trinity dominated the matches at the bottom of its player rotation to defeat Harvard by a score of 6-3 in the CSA semifinals.

It advanced to face Princeton in the title game on Sunday, and edged out the Tigers 5-4.

Junior Siddharth Suchde had an easy win at the first position to remain undefeated on the year, beating Shaun Johnstone, 9-4, 9-4, 9-6.

Broadbent pulled off a victory in five games against Gustav Detter. Detter took the first game, 9-6 before Broadbent stormed back and easily won the next two games, 9-2 and 9-4. After a 9-2 win by Detter in the fourth game, Broadbent overwhelmed his opponent in the deciding game with a 9-1 victory.

“Personally, I wanted to make sure that I did not lose twice to Trinity,” Broadbent said. “I wanted a little bit of redemption...and so I looked at this match as settling the score a little bit, on a personal note.”

After junior Ilan Oren defeated Jacques Swanepoel, 9-4, 9-6, 7-9, 9-3, in the third position, a trio of Harvard juniors—Jason De Lierre, Garnett Booth, and Mihir Sheth—fell in succession.

Junior Todd Ostrow was never in the ninth position match, losing, 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.

“I felt like the team played much better this time around against Trinity,” Sheth said. “Personally, coming off the Trinity match, I thought I played a very good game, but you cannot underestimate the Yale team, so you just have to be prepared.”

HARVARD 6, PENN 3

Harvard easily took the top four flights against Penn en route to its second win over the Quakers in less than a week. Suchde, Broadbent, Oren, and De Lierre, playing in the first fourth positions, all took their matches in three straight, with De Lierre putting up the most lopsided victory with scores of 9-0, 9-0, 9-1. DiSesa and Sheth, playing at the seventh and eighth positions, also won their matches in three.

“In the Friday match against Penn,” Sheth said, “I thought I did pretty well especially since I lost my last match against Penn the last time we played the week before. I had a point to prove. I won my match pretty easily.”

Booth, playing at the fifth position, lost his match in five games to Andrew Zimmerman of the Quakers, even though he won the first two games, 9-1, 9-4.

Zimmerman stormed back to take the next three games by scores of 9-4, 9-5, and 9-6.

Gertler, playing sixth, and Ostrow, playing ninth, were beaten in three games.

—Staff writer Tony D. Qian can be reached at tonyqian@fas.harvard.edu.