Loomis

On Saturday, January 10, the Loomis-Chaffee boys varsity squash team
traveled from their Windsor, Ct. campus down to New Haven to take on
the Hopkins team.  Loomis had defeated Hopkins 5--2 a year ago, but
Hopkins was hopeful of improving this year.

The match began auspiciously enough with senior co-captain Alex Liu at
#2 winning the first game against Loomis' Alex Steel, and with
freshman Gyan Maria also winning game number one at the number four
singles slot.  Simon Doss-Gollin at #6 wound up losing a tight first
game.  But as the match wore on, Loomis slowly but surely began to
gain the upper hand.  Alex Steel controlled play at #2 with a
convincing comeback, 7/11, 11/4, 11/6, 11/6.  Alex Cohen at #6 used
excellent court position to defeat a hustling Simon Doss-Gollin, 11/9,
11/8, 11/3.  And in the longest match of the day, Hopkins' Gyan Maria
finally got Hopkins on the scoreboard, regrouping in the final game to
edge Loomis' Tyrese Evans, 11/6, 11/6, 15/17, 2/11, 11/7.

Now the #3, 5, & 7 players took to the court.  Will Simon hustled
around the court at #7 but found himself faced against an adept
volleyer in Loomis' Samir Agadi, dropping a close three game contest
11/9, 13/11, 11/7.  Will McLean found himself matched with a steady
and persistent opponent and dropped a close 11/9, 7/11, 11/9, 11/6
match.  And sophomore Matt Fiedler worked hard to gain a 2 game to 1
advantage over Loomis senior Peter DeLalio but was unable to sustain
his momentum and lost, 3 games to 2.

Junior co-captain Spencer Lovejoy earned a second point for Hopkins at
#1 singles by dominating Loomis #1 Will Pepi, 11/3, 11/4, 11/1.

There will not be much rest for Hopkins as the boys varsity team
travels to King on Monday for yet another match, followed by a second
away match at St. Luke's on Wednesday.