New Haven, CT — Below are photos from the Men’s College Squash Association Individual (Pool Trophy) final between Princeton’s Todd Harrity and Harvard’s Colin West.
Thanks to Debra Tessier and SquashPhotos.com for providing the images.
Photos from the 2010 Men’s College Squash Association Individual (Pool Trophy) Final
2010 Women’s College Squash Association Individual Championship Finals – Game 1
Hartford, CT — Trinity’s Pamela Hathway and Harvard’s Laura Gemmell faced off in the 2010 Women’s College Squash Association Individual Championship (Ramsay Cup) finals. The epic five-game match was quite the event.
CollegeSquashAssociation.com will be publishing the entire match. Each day this week, a game will be published.
Below is video of game 1.
Laura Gemmell Wins 2010 Women’s Individual Squash Championship
Hartford, CT — Harvard first-year player Laura Gemmell defeated Trinity’s Pamela Hathway in a thrilling five-game match to win the 2010 Women’s Individual Championship.
Gemmell came into the match as the top seed, having helped lead Harvard to a national team title the week before. Gemmell was not only undefeated in college play — she had won all but one match 3-0, including an 11-6, 11-6, 11-7 win over Hathway in January.
Hathway came into the match as something of a dark horse. A junior, she transfered to Trinity this year. She began the season playing number 4 and had moved up to the number 1 spot by the middle of January.
Gemmell went ahead early in the first game, but the match quickly became quite close. Gemmell won the first game 12-10, then Hathway came back and won the second game decisively 11-5, thanks in large part to a series of deadly working forehand boasts.
During the course of the long third game Gemmell regained composure, and when Hathway reached game ball at 10-8, the Crimson first-year evened the score to 10-all. Hathway, however, wasn’t done, and took the game 14-12.
Hathway won the first three points of the fourth game and seemed to be in control. Then Gemmell evened the score at 5-all. The two players traded points until Gemmell held out to win the last two points, taking the game 11-9.
The match was close until the end, and players and fans from Harvard and Trinity surrounded court 1, cheering Gemmell and Hathway on. It came down to the wire, with Hathway coming from behind to tie Gemmell at 9-all. Gemmell had been pushed in this match more than the entire season, but she didn’t look back. She won the next two points, winning the Ramsay Cup and the women’s individual title 3-2.
Katherine O’Donnell, a Harvard senior, captured the Holleran Cup and the “B” Division title with a 3-2 win over JoAnn Jee of Trinity.
Colin West Wins 2010 Men’s Individual Squash Championship
Hartford, CT — Harvard senior co-captain Colin West has won the 2010 Men’s Individual Squash Championship.
West defeated Princeton freshman Todd Harrity in three games at the Kellner Squash Center at Trinity College.
West won a close first game 11-9. Harrity brought the second game to game point, but West came back to win the game 13-11. He dominated the third game, securing the final game and the match in less than ten minutes.
With West’s win, a Harvard player has won the Pool Trophy 33 times. The last Harvard player to win the men’s individual title was Siddharth Suchde in 2007.
Yale’s C.J. Plimpton won the Molloy Cup and the men’s “B” Division with a 3-2 win over Jason Michas of Harvard.
2010 CSA Individuals: Trinity and Harvard Pool Trophy Match
Hartford, CT — At the 2010 College Squash Association Individual Championships, Trinity’s Vikram Malhotra faced Harvard’s Colin West.
Below are photos from the match. Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each photo.
2010 CSA Individuals: Stanford and Dartmouth Ramsay Cup Match
Hartford, CT — At the 2010 College Squash Association Individual Championships, Stanford’s Pamela Chua faced Dartmouth’s Valeria Wiens.
Below are photos from the match. Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each photo.
2010 Men’s and Women’s Individual Championships: Day 2
Hartford, CT — Laura Gemmell of Harvard and Pamela Hathway of Trinity advanced to Sunday’s women’s “A” Division final, while Todd Harrity of Princeton and Colin West of Harvard advanced to the men’s “A” Division final.
Gemmell has dropped just one game the entire season en route to the Ramsay Cup finals. That loss of one game came in the first round of play this weekend, with Gemmell dropping the second game of her match against Cornell’s Rebecca Hazell. Gemmell, a first-year player, defeated Penn senior Sydney Scott in the round of 16 and her Harvard teammate Alisha Mashruwala in the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, Gemmell played Yale number 1 Logan Greer. Gemmell won the first game 11-4, but Greer pushed back in the second, taking the game to 12-all. Gemmell won the next two points and didn’t look back. After winning the second game 14-12, she won the third 11-4, securing her place in the finals.
In the other women’s semifinal, Hathway faced Penn senior Kristen Lange, who was making a bid for her fourth consecutive trip to the individual finals. Hathway, the second seed in the draw, had defeated all of her opponents in the tournament 3-0: Yale’s Rhetta Nadas in the opening round, Harvard’s June Tiong in the round of 16, and Yale’s Sarah Toomey in the quarterfinals. The opening game between Hathway and Lange was close, with Hathway coming out on top, 14-12. She won the next game 11-5. Then Lange fought to the end in the final game, eventually falling 10-12, sending Hathway to her first Ramsay Cup final.
Colin West is the only senior to be in the finals. The Harvard co-captain entered the tournament as the top seed. He defeated Dartmouth’s Nick Sisodia in the opening round and beat F&M’s Gabriel De Melo in the round of 16. In the quarterfinals, West played Trinity’s Vikram Malhotra, winning that match 3-0.
West faced Rochester number 1 Beni Fischer in the semifinals. Fischer had played a close four-game match against Trinity’s Andres Vargas in the quarterfinals: 12-10, 10-12, 11-7, 11-5. The match between West and Fischer wasn’t as close, with West winning in three: 11-7, 11-6, 11-4.
Princeton freshman Todd Harrity had a more challenging road to the finals. Harrity dropped one game to Harvard’s Reed Endresen in the opening round and then defeated both Richard Hill of Harvard and Kelly Shannon of Princeton by a score of 3-0 in the next two rounds. His semifinal opponent, Trinity’s Antonio Salas, was somewhat of a surprise. Salas played at number 6 on Trinity’s national championship-winning team two weeks ago, and he wasn’t seeded coming into individuals. He upset his teammate, Trinity number 2 Parth Sharma, in the quarterfinals to make it into the semis.
With the home crowd cheering him on, Salas played his heart out. Harrity won the first two games 11-5, 11-9. Salas surged back, taking the next two games 11-5, 11-9. When the fifth game started, Harrity was back in control. Play was halted for a few minutes in the middle of the game as Salas’s right hand was bleeding, but when Salas came back he never regained the lead. Harrity won the final game 11-5 to make his first trip to the Pool Trophy finals.
Gemmell and Hathway played during the Harvard-Trinity match at the end of January. Gemmell won that match in 3: 11-6, 11-6, 11-7.
The Harvard and Princeton men played at the end of the regular season and during the first round of the National Team Championships. West won over Harrity both times; the first time he won 3-1, and the second time he won 3-2.
In the women’s Holleran Cup (“B” Division), Katherine O’Donnell of Harvard and Annie Madeira of Penn will play in one semifinal Sunday morning and Bethan Williams of Harvard and JoAnn Jee of Trinity will play in the other.
In the men’s Molloy Cup (“B” Division) semifinals, Yale’s C.J. Plimpton and Penn’s Danny Greenberg will square off in one match and Princeton’s David Pena and Harvard’s Jason Michas will play in the other.
2010 CSA Individuals: Stanford and Yale Holleran Cup Match
Hartford, CT — At the 2010 College Squash Association Individual Championships, Stanford’s Cecilia Haig faced Yale’s Katherine Harrison in the round of 32 of the Holleran Cup (“B” Division).
Below are photos from the match. Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each photo.
2010 CSA Individuals: Navy and Trinity Pool Trophy Match
Hartford, CT — At the 2010 College Squash Association Individual Championships, the Naval Academy’s Nils Mattsson faced Trinity’s Parth Sharma in the round of 16 of the Pool Trophy (“A” Division).
Below are photos from the match. Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each photo.
