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Squash Takes Third At Seven Sisters

February 04, 2012

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Mount Holyoke College women's squash team won the Seven Sisters Championship for the sixth consecutive year, sweeping Wellesley College, Smith College, and host Vassar College 9-0 in a round-robin format on Saturday at Kenyon Hall.

Wellesley finished second with an 8-1 over Vassar and a 7-2 win over Smith. Smith defeated Vassar in the closest match of the day, 5-4, to finish with a 1-2 record on the day and third place. Vassar went 0-3 and took fourth.

Ranked No. 13 in the most recent College Squash Association (CSA) poll, Mount Holyoke entered the tournament the heavy favorite. With first place sealed for Mount Holyoke after two rounds of play, No. 26 Wellesley and No. 24 Smith fittingly met in the final match of the day with an even 1-1 record to decide second place.

A match closer than the score would indicate, it featured five five-set matches- two of which accounted for Smith's two points- and two four-set matches. At the No. 1 position, Rosemary O'Connor of Wellesley knocked off Jacqueline Zhou (Singapore, Singapore/) of Smith in straight sets 11-6, 12-10, 12-10. O'Connor went 2-1 on the day and was named to the Seven Sisters All-Tournament Team.

Mount Holyoke's No. 1 Randima Ranaweera and No. 2 Shara Robertson each went 3-0 en route to the Championship and earned All-Tournament team honors. Clair Oblamski (Brookfield, Wis./Brookfield East) and Helen Queenan (Wellesley, Mass./Newton Country Day) from Smith and Nina Punukollu from Vassar rounded out the All-Tournament team.
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