No. 8 Men’s Squash Falls to Top-Ranked Harvard in Potter Cup Opener

Friday, February 28

Cambridge, Mass.

1 p.m.

Drexel University

Harvard

Photo by: Gavin Baker

No. 8 Men’s Squash Falls to Top-Ranked Harvard in Potter Cup Opener

2/28/2020 3:42:00 PM | Men's Squash

Championship Central

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The eighth-ranked Drexel men's squash team suffered a 9-0 defeat at the hands of No. 1 Harvard in first round action at the Potter Cup on Friday.

Filip Krueger took the opening game from Victor Crouin in the top position. Krueger could not follow up on his 12-10 triumph and dropped the next three by 12-10, 11-6 and 11-3 margins.

Matthew Lucente pushed Saadeldin Abouaish to four games in the No. 3 match. After back-to-back 11-7 losses, Lucente kept the match alive with a 15-13 win in the third game but lost, 13-11, in the fourth.

The Dragons (10-7) drop to the consolation bracket, where they will play either No. 4 Princeton or No. 5 Rochester tomorrow at noon.

No. 1 Harvard 9, No. 8 Drexel 0
1 | Victor Crouin def. Filip Krueger, 10-12, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3
2 | Marwan Tarek def. Dylan Kachur, 11-3, 11-4, 11-6
3 | Saadeldin Abouaish def. Matthew Lucente, 11-7, 11-7, 13-15, 13-11
4 | Samuel Scherl def. Noel Heaton, 11-3, 11-2, 11-4
5 | Sean Hughes def. José López, 11-3, 11-5, 11-4
6 | Timmy Brownell def. Gautam Nagpal, 11-3, 11-3, 11-0
7 | George Crowne def. Nicko Fehn, 11-6, 11-2, 11-6
8 | Adam Corcoran def. Shaan Dalal, 11-3, 11-4, 11-4
9 | Ayush Menon def. Nicoló Abou Taleb, 11-5, 11-4, 11-2