February 17, 2008

Trinity Men's Squash Wins 2008 CSA National Championship

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomore Baset Chaudhry (Lahore, Pakistan) dominated the No. 1 match against the nation’s top-ranked player with a 3-0 victory to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 8-1 win over the Princeton University Tigers in the College Squash Association (CSA) National Team Championship (Potter Trophy) Finals this afternoon at Harvard University. Trinity, ranked No. 1 in the nation, earns its 10th consecutive intercollegiate national championship crown and extends the nation’s longest intercollegiate winning streak in any sport to 183 matches in a row.

Junior Rushabh Vora (Mumbai, India) started the match off with a quick, 3-0 win in the No. 9 match and juniors Manek Mathur (Mumbai, India) and Supreet Singh (Mumbai, India) posted 3-1 wins at No. 3 and No. 6, respectively to give Trinity a 3-0 lead. Bantam senior co-captain Simba Muhwati (Harare, Zimbabwe) won, 3-0, at No. 8 and freshman Parth Sharma (Jaipur, India) posted a 3-0 win at No. 5 to give Trinity the title after just five individual matches were completed. Trinity junior Gustav Detter (Malmoe, Sweden) and freshman Andres Vargas (Bogota, Colombia) also posted victories, while senior Tom McKay (Ridgewood, N.J.) defeated Bantam freshman Randy Lim (Penang, Malaysia), 3-1, to account for the lone Tiger points.

MATCH RESULTS
1. TC- Baset Chaudhry def. Maurico Sanchez, 3-0
2. TC- Gustav Detter def. Kimlee Wong, 3-0
3. TC- Manek Mathur def. David Letoruneau, 3-1
4. TC- Andres Vargas def. David Canner, 3-1
5. TC- Parth Sharma def. Hesham El-Halaby, 3-0
6. TC- Supreet Singh def. Santiago Imberton, 3-1
7. P- Tom McKay def. Randy Lim, 3-1
8. TC- Simba Muhwati def. Peter Sopher, 3-0
9. TC- Rushabh Vora def. Phil Sopher, 3-0
Trinity 8, Princeton 1