AMHERST, Mass. – Freshman Rachel Au won four matches to highlight the play of the women's squash team's entries at the College Squash Assocation's Individual Championships.
 
Au was representing the Big Red in the Holleran Division, which included the lower 48 seeds at the event. She advanced to the finals of the second-round consolation bracket, winning four of her six matches at the event. Au got off to a quick start with an 11-8, 11-5, 11-9 victory over Hamilton's Hannah Coffin in the first round, but she was knocked out of the main draw by Princeton's Casey Cortes later Friday.
 
Au then cruised to a pair of three-game victories Saturday over Mount Holyoke's Katrina Intal and Brown's Sarah Crosky. She then advanced to the bracket finals with an 11-6, 11-7, 11-8 victory over Bates' Myriam Kelly on Sunday morning before dropped a four-game clash with George Washington's Jacqueline Shea. Au finished her freshman season with a 14-11 record, competing primarily in the middle of the Big Red's lineup.
 
Freshman Danielle Letourneau, sophomore Jessenia Pacheco and junior Jaime Laird were competing in the Ramsay Division, which featured the nation's top 32 players.

Letourneau got off to a good start with a four-game victory over Princeton's Katherine Giovinazzo. Letourneau was then knocked out of the main draw by Stanford's Pamela Chua in their third meeting of the season. Letourneau stayed alive in a consolation draw with a four-game win over Bates' Nessrine Ariffin, by she was eliminated in the second-round consolation semifinals by Harvard's Haley Mendez, 6-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-8.
 
Pacheco was toppled in the first round by Harvard's Nirasha Guruge, then suffered her second loss to Harvard's Sarah Mumanachit in the consolation bracket.
 
Laird dropped her opener against Mendez in four games, but came back with two straight victories in the first-round consolation bracket. She topped Princeton's Alexis Saunders to wrap up play Friday, then took a four-game tilt against Mumanachit in the quarterfinals. Eventual bracket winner Yarden Odinak, of Penn, finally eliminated Laird in a tight three games, 11-9, 12-10, 11-9.
 
The Big Red wrapped up team play with a sixth-place finish at the national championships last week. Cornell had finished in seventh each of the last two seasons, then spent the entire 2011-12 regular season slotted there before improving that standing at the Howe Cup.