Hughes Falls in Holleran South Finals

Sunday, March 8

Philadelphia, Pa.

All Day

Drexel University

CSA Individual Championships

Photo by: Gavin Baker

3/8/2020 5:32:00 PM | Women's Squash

PHILADELPHIA – Anna Hughes fell in five games in a hotly-contested match with top-seeded Eleonore Evans in the Holleran South finals on Sunday to conclude the College Squash Association Individual Championships.

Hughes started off on the right foot with an 11-4 win in the first game, but Evans answered with a pair of 11-9 victories. The Drexel senior kept the match alive with an 11-8 win in the fourth game.

The fifth game carried not only the weight of deciding the match but also determining who would receive second team all-American honors. Both players gave their all in the single-most important game of the season. Evans edged out Hughes in that decisive game, 11-9.

Hughes finishes her Dragon career with 40-career wins and is one of six women's players in program history with that many victories.

Anna Hughes – Holleran South
Rd. of 16: Anna Hughes (Drexel) def. Gigi Yeung (Yale), 11-9, 11-9, 11-7
QFs: Anna Hughes (Drexel) def. No. 2 Alexa Jacobs (Brown), 7-11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-6
SFs: Anna Hughes (Drexel) def. Jane Pincus (Columbia), 11-13, 7-11, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6
Finals: No. 1 Eleonore Evans (Harvard) def. Anna Hughes (Drexel), 4-11, 11-9, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9