Squash Bested by No. 6/9 Columbia

Saturday, November 22

Kline & Specter Squash Center

12 p.m.

Drexel University

Columbia

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

11/22/2014 4:11:00 PM | Men's Squash, Women's Squash

PHILADELPHIA - The men's and women's squash teams were defeated by the visting Lions of Columbia in the 2014-15 home-opener. The men (0-2) fell 8-1 to No. 6 Columbia (1-0). The women (0-2) lost 7-2 to No. 9 Columbia (1-0).

Ryan Morgan swept Maya Patel to earn her first win of her career (11-8, 11-6, 13-11). Alisha Maity won in three games over Laura Rahauser (11-5,11-4, 11-9). Kaitlyn Money pushed her match with Kate Calihan to four games after winning the third 11-5 but fell 11-8 in the fourth. Columbia held a 3-1 leading heading into the second half of matches. Elisa Money held a 2-1 lead heading into the the final two sets but Catherine Jenkins won the last two games 12-10 and 11-6 to get the Lions a 4-1 cushion. Leah Barnet secured the win for the Lions with her win over Kiran Vasudevan. Courtney Sabo got the second win for the Dragons with her four game win over Sareen Ahmar (11-6, 8-11, 11-3, 11-7).

Columbia went 4-for-4 of the first half of matches. Mark Kauf was the lone Dragon not to get swept, losing 3-1 to Josh Sekhar. Luke Willemse got the Dragons on the board with his 3-1 win over Rishi Tandon (11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9). Sebastian Dangood pushed was up 2-0 in his match with Jonathan Gill but Gill won three straight to take the match 3-2.

The Dragons are back in action on December 3 when they travel to Princton. The men will start at 5:30 p.m. and the women follow at 7:30.

	DREXEL	COLUMBIA	GAME SCORES	MATCH SCORE
1	Mary Fung-A-Fat	Colette Sultana	11-3, 8-11, 3-11, 7-11	3-1
2	Ryan Morgan	Maya Patel	11-8, 11-6, 13-11	3-0
3	Elisa Money	Catherine Jenkins	11-9, 6-11, 11-8, 10-12, 6-11	3-2
4	Laura Rahauser	Alisha Maity	5-11, 4-11, 9-11	3-0
5	Kiran Vasudevan	Leah Barnet	8-11, 7-11, 9-11	3-0
6	Kaitlyn Money	Kate Calihan	9-11, 8-11, 11-5, 8-11	3-1
7	Abigail Kaplan	Addie Fulton	5-11, 9-11, 7-11	3-0
8	Kristine Giltvedt	Jamie Pawlik	8-11, 2-11, 7-11	3-0
9	Courtney Sabo	Sareen Ahmar	11-6, 8-11, 11-3, 11-7	3-1

	DREXEL	COLUMBIA	GAME SCORES	MATCH SCORE
1	Atticus Kelly	Romit Tandon	4-11, 3-11, 5-11	3-0
2	Ibrahim Bakir	Osama Khalifa	9-11, 7-11, 4-11	3-0
3	Luke Willemse	Rishi Tandon	11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9	3-1
4	Michael Thompson	Seif Ashraf	7-11, 4-11, 6-11	3-0
5	Cillian Dunne	Arhum Saleem	8-11, 9-11, 5-11	3-0
6	Mark Kauf	Josh Sekhar	4-11, 9-11, 11-6, 9-11	3-1
7	Joey Gingold	Mohamed AbdelMoksaued	9-11, 3-11, 10-12	3-0
8	Nat Fry	Tarun Nambiar	7-11, 10-12, 8-11	3-0
9	Sebastian Dangond	Jonathan Gill	11-8, 11-5, 10-12, 8-11, 9-11	3-2