PHILADELPHIA — Senior
Rishi Jalan won the Molloy Division of the College Squash Association Individuals Championships, highlighting the Big Red's performance at the three-day event hosted by Drexel and Penn.
The Molloy Division is a single-elimination tournament featuring competitors ranked No. 33 to No. 80 in the nation by the CSA. Jalan entered the weekend ranked 57
th before rattling off six consecutive victories this weekend.
Jalan sailed past Princeton's Michael LeBlanc in three games in the Round of 16 on Saturday, then outlasted St. Lawrence's Anderson Good in the quarterfinals, 11-8, 11-13, 11-6, 11-5. That propelled him to Sunday's semifinals against the bracket's fourth seed, Brown's Blake Reinson. Jalan cruised to an 11-9, 11-8, 11-4 victory in that match, then defeated Drexel's Justin Singh in the hard-fought championship match, 16-14, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8.
Pool Division – Men's A Draw (seeds 1-32)
For the second straight year, fifth-ranked senior
Nick Sachvie was ousted in the quarterfinals. Moustafa Bayoumy, the fourth seed out of St. Lawrence, defeated Sachvie in three games, 11-5, 11-8, 11-7. Harvard's Ali Farag went on to defeat Bayoumy and win the national title with a four-game victory against defending national champion Amr Khaled Khalifa, of St. Lawrence.
Ramsay Division – Women's A Draw (seeds 1-32)
Junior
Danielle Letourneau was eliminated in the quarterfinals Saturday, dropping an 11-6, 13-11, 11-6 decision to Yale's Millie Tomlinson. It's the second straight year Letourneau advanced as far as the quarterfinals.
Senior
Jessenia Pacheco won the first-round consolation bracket by default against Yale's Shihui Mao. Pacheco won both of her Saturday matches to advance to the finals, first defeating Trinity's Sachika Balvani, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8, 12-10, then Yale's Issey Norman-Ross, 11-4, 5-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6.
Holleran Division – Women's B Draw (seeds 33-80)
Freshman
Rachel Scherman advanced to the semifinals before falling to eventual champion Shiyuan Mao in a marathon match, 7-11, 11-5, 11-6, 15-17, 11-7, on Sunday morning. Scherman needed a terrific come-from-behind effort to advance to Sunday's match, rallying past Stanford's Zandra Ho in Saturday evening's quarterfinals, 12-10, 9-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7. Scherman began Saturday's play with a 12-10, 11-5, 7-11, 11-8 victory over Dartmouth's Nina Scott in the Round of 16.
Junior
Lindsay Seginson also played two matches Saturday on the other side of the bracket. She started with an 11-8, 11-8, 11-5 victory over Stanford's Serena Fagan in the Round of 16 before being eliminated in the quarterfinals via 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8 loss to Stanford's Madeleine Gill.