After a tough 3-4 loss to Suffield Academy on Dec. 1, the Martlets bounced back with a solid 7-1 victory over Kingswood Oxford at the Wyverns Squash Club in West Hartford on Dec. 5. Most of the matches were close and hard-fought. Westminster won in three games at Nos. 1, 2 and 8, four games at Nos. 3 and 6, and five games at Nos. 5 and 7. The Wyverns were gracious but pesky foes. More power to them! This second match revealed both the potential of the Second team and how much work the boys still have to do in the woodshed. The Martlets are off until early January, but coach Michael Cervas hopes and expects them to play a lot of squash and do a lot of conditioning between now and then. The nail goes to Gus Hartmann ’20 for only surrendering a total of 16 points in his match. Thanks also to Ian Lee ’21 for coming up from the Thirds team and for getting his first JV victory.
Here are the individual match results.
No. 1 Mac Dye '20 defeated Jayden Weinstein 9, 4, 8
No. 2 Gus Hartmann '20 defeated Carter Smith 4, 9, 3
No. 3 Travis Paulsen '20 defeated Henry Pelletier 6, 6, (10), 6
No. 4 Zach Eckerson '21 lost to Teddy Schartz (10), 9, (4), (6)
No. 5 Ral Reyes '21 defeated James Beelhower (9), 9, 8, (4), 8
No. 6 Quoc Truong '20 defeated Andrew Holland 5, (8), 8, 5
No. 7 Nate Chaves '19 defeated Ben O'Dozzo (8), (7), 5, 7, 11
No. 8 Ian Lee '21 defeated Ethan Raisner 8, 9, 7