Squash Swept by No. 7/6 Cornell

Saturday, January 24

Ithaca, N.Y.

12 p.m.

Drexel University

Cornell

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

1/24/2015 4:30:00 PM | Men's Squash, Women's Squash

ITHACA, N.Y. - The Drexel men's and women's squash teams both fell to Cornell on Saturday, 7-2. The men fall to 4-6 on the season while the No. 7 Big Red improve to 5-3 on the season. The women's record slides to 5-7 on the season while the No. 6 Big Red move to 7-1.

The men got wins from Luke Willemse and Michael Thompson in spots two and three of the Dragon ladder. Willemse swept Sebastian Obieta-Chichizola in three games. Thompson played a marathon of a five-game match with Harry Freeman. Three of the five games went past regulation. Thompson won the first game, 14-12, lost the second game 15-13 and then won the decisive game five, 13-11, by saving four match points. The win for Thompson was his first in the number three spot this season.

Spots six through nine in the Dragon lineup were all swept 3-0 by their Big Red opponents. Joey Gingold and Sebastian Dangond lost three close games in their matches. Atticus Kelly lost the first two games of his match, including a 12-10 loss in game 2, then rallied back to win game three but dropped game four to fall in four.

Hayley Hughes got a win for the Dragons at the top of the ladder over Rachel Scherman, 3-2. Hughes came back from two games down to win the last three, including 12-10 in game five. The freshman now has six wins from the top of the Dragon ladder. Mary Fung-A-Fat got the other Dragon win on the afternoon, which was also in five games. Fung-A-Fat opened up a 2-0 lead but then saw Emma Uible win close games in games three and four. The junior then held on for an 11-9 win in game five.

Elisa Money dropped a tough 3-2 decision to Margaux Losty in the number three spot. Money won games one and two but dropped three striaght including a close 13-11 loss in game five. Laura Rahauser played three tough games but fell 3-0 to Rachel Au. The same goes for Abigail Kaplan with her match versus Charlotte Knaggs. Kaplan lost by a combined nine points.

Both the men and women return to action tomorrow at 10 a.m. versus the Rochester Yellowjackets.

	Drexel	Cornell	Game Scores	Match Score
1	Atticus Kelly	Aditiya Jagtap	6-11, 10-12, 11-8, 7-11	1-3
2	Luke Willemse	Sebastian Obieta-Chichizola	11-7, 11-6, 11-9	3-0
3	Michael Thompson	Harry Freeman	14-12, 13-15, 8-11, 11-8, 13-11	3-2
4	Cillian Dunne	Gustav Runersjo	7-11, 4-11, 11-8, 4-11	1-3
5	Mark Kauf	Kevin Flannery	7-11, 11-7, 8-11, 6-11	1-3
6	Nat Fry	Graham Dietz	1-11, 6-11, 2-11	0-3
7	Sebastian Dangond	J. August Jones	7-11, 9-11, 7-11	0-3
8	Joey Gingold	Jordan Brail	7-11, 8-11, 8-11	0-3
9	Michal Jachimowicz	Andrew Stone	4-11, 2-11, 1-11	0-3

	Drexel	Cornell	Game Scores	Match Score
1	Hayley Hughes	Rachel Scherman	9-11, 5-11, 11-6, 11-9, 12-10	3-2
2	Ryan Morgan	Michele Garceau	16-18, 7-11, 6-11	0-3
3	Elisa Money	Margaux Losty	11-9, 11-8, 2-11, 4-11, 11-13	2-3
4	Mary Fung-A-Fat	Emma Uible	11-6, 11-9, 10-12, 9-11, 11-9	3-2
5	Kaitlyn Money	Lindsay Seginson	1-11, 7-11, 8-11	0-3
6	Laura Rahauser	Rachel Au	9-11, 8-11, 9-11	0-3
7	Abigail Kaplan	Charlotte Knaggs	10-12, 9-11, 6-11	0-3
8	Kristine Giltvedt	Reut Odinak	2-11, 2-11, 2-11	0-3
9	Courtney Sabo	Sydney Francis	1-11, 5-11, 0-11	0-3