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Hopkins junior varsity squash jubilantly vanquishes Williams varsity, 5--2
On Wednesday, January 29, the Hopkins junior varsity squash team
served as hosts to the incoming Williams School varsity boys squash
team. Many of these matches turned out to be more evenly matched than
when the Williams varsity had taken on the Hopkins varsity earlier on
in the season.
Play was started in the odd numbered matches (Williams brought 11
players). The top 7 matches were official, and the next 4 on the
ladder were exhibition. Taylor Kendall at #7 and Marcelo de la Mora
at #5 for Hopkins got our school off to a strong start, showing good
discipline and good hustle on the court, with both players triumphing
by a solid 3--0 score. Things would not be so easy at #1 and #3,
however. Justin Lee at #1 used his accuracy, speed, and good shot
selection on the court to overcome Jack Shannon's power game, and came
through with a hard earned 11/9, 7/11, 11/9, 11/7 victory. The #3
singles match turned out to be the closest encounter of the afternoon.
Simon Doss-Gollin and Ben Lahm traded points back and forth, with
both players hustling and determined to win. Things looked grim for
Simon in the 5th and final game when he fell behind by 4 points, but
Simon turned on the steam at the end and eked out an 11/6, 9/11,
12/10, 6/11, 11-9 win. In this first round of matches, Andre Giglio
at #9 singles kept his opponent behind him and in the back corners and
won handily, 3--0, while Eric Kong at #11 had to battle hard to come
through 11/7, 7/11, 12/10, 13/11.
Now it was the even numbered players' turn to take to the courts.
Tiger Lu at #6 used his superior speed and good court sense to forge
out a 3--0 victory. After dropping the first game, Dylan Matthes came
on strong to win at #8 singles, 7/11, 11/5, 11/7, 11/6. JD Kennedy at
#10 was overcome by Williams' Alden Schuman in four very tight games,
11/9, 11/7, 9/11, 11/9. Then at #4 singles, in another extremely
close match between two hustling players, Williams' Jack Ficke
persevered to trim Hopkins' Will Simon, 6/11, 11/6, 7/11, 13/11, 11/6.
And finally, at #2 singles, the greater experience and shot variety
of Williams' Adam Verhoeff was enough to defeat a game and determined
Matt Fiedler, 11/5, 11/8, 12/10. Thus the final score became 5--2 in
favor of Hopkins.
This makes our junior varsity team's record this season, 2 wins
and 1 loss. The next match for the junior varsity takes place this
Saturday at home against rival Kingswood-Oxford, at 3 PM.
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