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Baltimore, Md. – The Fordham squash team had a very successful weekend at this weekend's Johns Hopkins Round Robin in Baltimore, Maryland, picking up four victories in five matches. The Rams posted wins over host Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, William & Mary, and Vanderbilt, while falling to Duke.
With the 4-1 mark, the Rams are now 8-8 on the season.
The round robin opened on Friday night, with Fordham defeating host Johns Hopkins, 5-4, is a tight fought affair. After splitting the bottom four matches with wins by
Justin Esposito (#9) and
Sahil Bahri (#6) for Fordham, the Rams captured three of the top five matches to clinch the win.
Peter Yuen swept his #1 slot match, as did
John Lennon in the #3 position, but it was
Jimmy Shinnick's four-game win at the #4 position over Preston Coffin, 16-14, 6-11, 11-5, and 11-8, that clinched the Rams' win.
On Saturday, the Rams dominated action, winning 26 of the 27 individual match-ups, defeating Lafayette, 8-1, William & Mary, 9-0, and Vanderbilt, 9-0.
Sahil Bahri
The Lafayette win saw 3-0 victories by Yuen,
Bruce Czachor, Lennon, Shinnick,
Joseph Hughes,
Peter Vergara, and Esposito, while Bahri worked hard for a five-game win over Charlie Mullaney at the #6 position, 8-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-3, and 11-8.
All nine matches against William & Mary were three-game sweeps by the Rams, while against Vanderbilt, there were four sweeps, four four-game wins, and one five-game victory for Fordham, which came from Vergara at the #8 slot over Andrew Carlston, 11-9, 11-4, 7-11, 9-11, and 11-9.
On Sunday, Fordham picked up a sweep from Bahri and a four-set win from Lennon, which completed a perfect 5-0 weekend for Lennon. However, Yuen, Hughes, and Vergara were all outlasted by the Blue Devils in five games, giving the match to Duke.
The Fordham squash team will now gear up for the 2017 CSA Team Championship, which will be held, February 17
th through 19
th, at Harvard University.
