2016 Men’s National Team Championships (Potter Cup, A Div): Day 2 Report

2016 Men’s National Team Championships (Potter Cup, A Div): Day 2 Report

New Haven, CT — Today’s Potter Cup matches were filled with excitement and unexpected results.

Defending champions Trinity faced Rochester in one semifinal. Historically, Rochester has two all-time victories against the Bantams, a win in 1973 and a 5-4 victory in 2015. When the two squads faced each other in Hartford in January, Trinity had the edge in a 5-4 match.

Rochester roared out of the gates, with Xiaomin Meng winning in three at number 9 and Neil Cordell winning 11-9 in the fourth at number 3. Trinity stayed close with a three-game win from Afeeq Ismail at number 6. The Yellowjackets led 2-1 at the end of the first round.

The momentum shifted in the second round. Trinity posted two more wins, catching and passing the Yellowjackets. Nku Patrick won in four at number 8, and James Evans also won in four at number 5. The Yellowjacket’s Ryosei Kobayashi won in four at number 2 to tie the score once again. Trinity and Rochester were locked at 3-all going into the final round of matches.

Omar Allaudin gave Trinity a 4-3 lead with a three-game win at number 7. Trinity won the first game of both the number 1 and number 4 matches, but in both contests, Rochester came back to take games 2 and 3.

Rochester’s Mario Yanez rallied from a blowout 1-11 loss in the first game to win the number 1 match in four, tying up the match.

Trinity’s Tom De Mulder and Rochester’s Tomotaka Endo were locked in battle, tied 9-all, then 10-all,  in the fifth. Endo pulled away in the final points, winning 12-10 in the fifth. The final score was Rochester 5, Trinity 4. For the first time in 19 years, Trinity will not be in the national championship final; for the first time ever, Rochester will be.

The other semifinal match-up was Yale versus St. Lawrence. During the regular season, the Bulldogs made the trip to Canton and came home 6-3 victors. Now Yale had the home court advantage.

All three first-round matches went past three games. Yale posted the first win, as Arjun Kochhar won in four at number 9. Yale’s Sam Fenwick forced a fifth game at number 3, and St. Lawrence’s George Willis forced a fifth at number 6. It was Fenwick’s and Willis’s opponents, however, who prevailed. Ahmed Bayoumy of St. Lawrence won at number 3, and Max Martin of Yale won at number 6. Yale had a 2-1 lead.

Liam McClintock of Yale didn’t waste much time in his second round match, winning in three at number 8 to widen the Bulldog’s lead. Thomas Kingshott of Yale and Hussien Elrayes of St. Lawrences traded games in the number 5 match, all the way through the fifth. Kingshott won 11-6 in the fifth to bring Yale within one match of the final.

Like his teammate Kingshott, Pierson Broadwater also traded games with his St. Lawrence opponent, Lockie Munro. Broadwater hung on to win 11-9 in the fifth. Yale was going to compete for the Potter Cup on their home courts.

Yale won the match, 6-3.

Tomorrow’s Potter Cup and national championship match will be contested between Yale and Rochester. The match starts at 3 PM.

In the consolation semifinals, Penn defeated Columbia, 5-4, and Harvard defeated Dartmouth, 6-3. Harvard and Penn will meet in the consolation final tomorrow morning.

Men's 2024-25 Scholar Athlete Recipients

Avi Agarwal (Princeton University)
Zain Ahmed (Princeton University)
Alex Akbari (Williams College)
Robert Albani (MIT)
Roger Alber Baddour (University of Pennsylvania)
Alexis Ballo (Middlebury College)
Lars Barkman (MIT)
Arav Bhagwati (Yale University)
Atreyus Bhavsar (Hamilton College)
Oliver Bikhazi-Green (St. Lawrence University)
Dean Brooker (St. Lawrence University)
Quintin Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Sebastian Campos (Colby College)
Tad Carney (Yale University)
David Costales (Harvard University)
Hao Cui (University of Pennsylvania)
Marco DiFilippo (Franklin & Marshall College)
Karim Elbarbary (University of Virginia)
Youssef Ezzo (Tufts University)
Garret Fantini (Haverford College)
Nathan Feinstein (Middlebury College)
Juan Felipe Hernandez (Denison University)
Noah Fish (Connecticut College)
Max Forster (Yale University)
Denis Gilevskiy (Harvard University)
Adam Goad (Columbia University)
Max Good (Bates College)
Abhimanyu Gupta (Amherst College)
Francis Evan Hajek (University of Virginia)
Tate Harms (Harvard University)
Pierce Henderson (Williams College)
Grady Herbert (Amherst College)
Zachary Idinopulos (Wesleyan University)
Nikhil Ismail (Yale University)
Rohan Iyer (Cornell University)
Thomas (Jack) Winston (Bowdoin College)
Aaryaman Jaising (Haverford College)
Kian Kardestuncer (Middlebury College)
Noah Katzer (Franklin & Marshall College)
Warren Klein (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Koeppel (University of Rochester)
Theo Kogan (Middlebury College)
Gordon Lam (Princeton University)
Asher Leavy (Williams College)
Jack Lee (Williams College)
Aaron Liang (Cornell University)
Will Lichstein (Middlebury College)
William "Mac" Aube (Dartmouth College)
Crispin McCarthy (Fordham University)
Andrew Minnis (Williams College)
Youssif Mostafa (Colby College)
Artemy Mukhin (Bard College)
Simon Muller (Hamilton College)
Zacharias Nam (Columbia University)
Jacob Nathan (Bard College)
Mitav Nayak (MIT)
Petr Nohel (University of Virginia)
William Okurowski (Amherst College)
Alexander Orr (Naval Academy)
Maxwell Orr (Yale University)
Jeh Pandole (Cornell University)
Henry Pelletier (Connecticut College)
Lucas Piller (Denison University)
Philip Hyun Su Price (MIT)
Rohan Ray (Dartmouth College)
Aidan Ray (Dickinson College)
Thomas Rosini (Princeton University)
William Sarbinowski (Cornell University)
Arnaav Sareen (Cornell University)
Kai Schinaman (Haverford College)
Christian Shah (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Shulman (Hamilton College)
Franklyn Smith (Columbia University)
Joe Smythe (Dickinson College)
Federico Sosa (Princeton University)
Lucas Spiro (Naval Academy)
Nicholas Spizzirri (University of Pennsylvania)
Conner Stoltz (Harvard University)
Rafay Syed (Williams College)
Evann Tan (Franklin & Marshall College)
Kerwin Teh (Tufts University)
John Paul Tew (University of Virginia)
Rana Thakkar (Dartmouth College)
Noah Tunis (Haverford College)
Rohan Valia (Tufts University)
Bennett Van Liew (Fordham University)
Roberto Vega (Hobart College)
Matthew Wang (Naval Academy)
Collin Wen (MIT)
Tom Whiteley (University of Rochester)
Nick Wilkinson (Bowdoin College)
Merritt Wurts (Yale University)
Ethan Yan (Wesleyan University)
Omar Zakaria (University of Rochester)

Women's 2024-25 Scholar Athlete Recipients

Alysa Ali (Cornell University)
Aanya Anand (Wesleyan University)
Mira Bakshi (Wesleyan University)
Charlotte Bell (Princeton University)
Meagan Best (University of Virginia)
Sydney Bramen (Georgetown University)
Nora Brandt (Williams College)
Alex Brown (Amherst College)
Aleezah Burhan (Tufts University)
Lindsey Burnham (Middlebury College)
Fabiola Cabello (Trinity College)
Emma Carney (Harvard University)
Molly Chadwick (Princeton University)
Chelsea Cho (Dartmouth College)
Thenuri De Silva (Bard College)
Jaclyn Dichter (Wesleyan University)
Vharshamithraa Diniesh (Tufts University)
Habiba Eldafrawy (Harvard University)
Ainsley Ellison (Connecticut College)
Maureen Foley (University of Virginia)
Catherine Fortin (Haverford College)
Zarine Gidwaney (Franklin & Marshall College)
Nasreen Hashmi (University of Virginia)
Katherine Hennessy (Georgetown University)
Abby Holding (Middlebury College)
Meherin Hossain (Bard College)
Aalia Husain (Georgetown University)
Riddhi Joshi (Tufts University)
Emma Kahle (St. Lawrence University)
Mira Karande (Bowdoin College)
Gurlin Kaur (Franklin & Marshall College)
Theresa Kay (Williams College)
Zaynab Khan (Trinity College)
Aishwarya Khubchandani (Cornell University)
Josephine Klein (Princeton University)
Gainsley Korengold (Hamilton College)
Christy Tin Yan Lau (Yale University)
Virginia Lawrence (Denison University)
Aubrey Lennon (Dartmouth College)
Katherine Manderlink (Denison University)
Madeleine Martin (St. Lawrence University)
Cate Moll (Dickinson College)
Nieve Monderer (Tufts University)
Saran Nghiem (Harvard University)
Anna O'Connor (Dickinson College)
Mackenzie O'Shea (Colby College)
Lujan Palacios (Trinity College)
Tanmai Pathak (Amherst College)
Natasha Pensler (University of Pennsylvania)
Abbie Peterson (Middlebury College)
Isabella Ronda (Middlebury College)
Isabel Schumacher (Connecticut College)
Amira Singh (Harvard University)
Ariana Solecki (Haverford College)
Amanda Solecki (Williams College)
India Spencer (Colby College)
Meghna Sreedhar (Yale University)
Molly Stoltz (Harvard University)
Sarah Stonestreet (Hamilton College)
Leandra Sze (Wesleyan University)
Lina Sherif Tammam (University of Virginia)
Whitney Taylor (Yale University)
Isabelle Tilney-Sandberg (Amherst College)
Emma Kate Watts-Roy (Bowdoin College)
Darcy Weber (Bowdoin College)
Brecon Welch (Harvard University)

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