JUMBOS SPLIT CONSOLATION MATCHES AT CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

COLLEGE WOMEN'S SQUASH FINAL SCORES
Bowdoin 9, Tufts 0 - NESCAC Championships consolation
Tufts 6, Connecticut 3 - NESCAC Championships consolation

At Middletown, CT
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Bowdoin 9, Tufts 0
1. Lauren Gesswein (B) def. Val Koo (T) 11-3, 11-2, 11-9
2. Lizzy Warner (B) def. Alix Michael (T) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7
3. Elizabeth Schetman (B) def. Mercedes Barba (T) 11-7, 11-13, 11-6, 11-6
4. Monica Wlodarczyk (B) def. Jess Rubine (T) 11-8, 11-3, 11-0
5. Bonnie Cao (B) def. Alyse Vinoski (T) 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-2
6. Alex Peacock-Villada (B) def. Madison Newbound (T) 11-1, 11-7, 11-7
7. Katie Boyce (B) def. Ushashi Basu (T) 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-13, 11-6
8. Louisa Cannell (B) def. Erin Bruynell (T) 11-2, 11-7, 11-5
9. Katie Woo (B) def. Sairah Mahmud (T) 11-5, 11-1, 15-13

Tufts 6, Connecticut College 3
1. Cara Flynn (C) def. Val Koo (T) 11-7, 11-9, 11-9
2. Alix Michael (T) def. Laura Abrams (C) 3-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5
3. Mercedes Barba (T) def. Lucie Nadler (C) 11-2, 11-8, 11-4
4. Jess Rubine (T) def. Jen Hyslip (C) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6
5. Alyse Vinoski (T) def. Victoria Leeds (C) 11-7, 11-9, 11-4
6. Jillian Sandler (C) def. Madison Newbound (T) 11-6, 11-7, 8-11, 4-11, 12-10
7. Sarah Robertson (C) def. Ushashi Basu (T) 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9
8. Erin Bruynell (T) def. Becca Markson (C) 11-6, 11-8, 15-13
9. Sairah Mahmud (T) def. Emily Russell (C) 11-6, 1-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-5

Alyse Vinoski played well in both of her matches for the Jumbos

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- After losing their first-round match to Colby in the NESCAC Championships on Friday night, the Tufts University women's squash team played a pair of loser's bracket matches on Saturday and split the results. The #10 seed Jumbos lost to ninth-seed Bowdoin 9-0, then defeated 11th seed Connecticut College 6-3. The matches were played at Wesleyan University.

First-year Ushashi Basu's (Darien, CT) five-game loss in the #7 match was the Jumbo highlight against Bowdoin. She trailed 2-0 before battling back for 11-9 and 13-11 wins in the third and fourth games, respectively. She lost the match by an 11-6 final in the fifth. Sophomore #3 Mercedes Barba (New York, NY) and sophomore #5 Alyse Vinoski (West Hartford, CT) both went four games in their losses. Barba was tied 1-1 before a pair of 11-6 losses.

The Jumbos won an exciting match against the Camels. Playing well for Tufts was Barba at #3, where she gave up 14 points in a win. First-year Jess Rubine (Cranston, RI) at #4, Vinoski at #5, and junior tri-captain Erin Bruynell (Milton, MA) also won in straight games.

Sophomore Alix Michael (Mercer Island, WA) came back from down 2-0 and senior Sairah Mahmud (Duxbury, MA) rallied from behind 2-1 to win their matches in five games at #2 and #9 respectively, essentially making the difference in the match for Tufts.

Tufts (3-12) will host 10th ranked Brown University at MIT on Tuesday night.

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