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Saints' women's squash team beat Wellesley 7-2

Posted 1/19/16

St. Lawrence University's women's squash team won seven of nine matches, five of them in straight games, and beat Wellesley College 7-2 for its second win of the season on Sunday. SLU went into the …

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Saints' women's squash team beat Wellesley 7-2

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St. Lawrence University's women's squash team won seven of nine matches, five of them in straight games, and beat Wellesley College 7-2 for its second win of the season on Sunday. SLU went into the match ranked 23rd nationally while Wellesley is 21st.

Jill Baker, Emily Terry and Zoe Kagan all swept their matches in the one through three slots, Alex Matamoros Infante won at five in three straight and Losangela Batista, Allie Brazo and Val Quan won in matches seven through nine.

Batista and Quan had to go extra games for their wins as Batista and Ruby Feng swapped wins in games one and two, Batista winning 11-5 and Feng 13-11 before Batista put the match away with 11-6 and 12-10 wins. Quan needed five games for her win over Navisha Gupta as Gupta won game one 12-10, the two traded 11-6 wins in games two and three and Quan closed it out with 11-9 and 11-5 victories.

Baker was a 11-9, 11-9, 11-4 winner over Sarah Zhang at one, Terry beat Phyllis Lin 14-12, 11-8, 12-10 and Kagan was a 11-6, 11-5, 11-1 winner over Gabriella Wynne at three. Infante won 11-9, 11-6, 11-9 over Rhea Advani at five, Brazo beat Kate Loftus 11-6, 13-11, 12-10 at eight and Sarah Neilson won the exhibition match at ten over Lumi Kinjo 11-3, 11-0, 11-1.

Wellesley's two match wins were at four as Meera Nayar beat the Saints' Lizzy Lasusa 11-6, 11-7, 10-12, 11-3 and at six where Haley Connor was a 11-2, 11-1, 11-7 winner over Cristina De La Vega.

The Saints will take on top ranked Harvard on Monday and will host seventh-ranked Cornell on Saturday.