Sunday, March 3, 2002

HELAL AND SAMPER BOTH WIN NATIONAL
SINGLES TITLES FOR TRINITY SQUASH

Bantams Complete Sweep of Team and Individual Squash Titles

Princeton, N.J.- Trinity College sophomore Amina Helal (Manchester, England) and freshman Bernardo Samper (Bogota, Colombia) won the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Association (WISA) and the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) Singles Championships, respectively, this weekend at Princeton University.

Samper defeated Will Evans, of Princeton, in the men's final, 4-9, 9-2, 9-4, 9-5, and Helal downed freshman teammate Lynn Leong (Kota Bharu, Malaysia) in the women's final, 9-2, 9-1, 9-0. Also for the Bantam women, sophomore Pam Saunders (Harare, Zimbabwe) captured the consolation final with a 3-2 (3-9, 3-9, 7-99-5, 9-5, 9-4) win over Harvard's Carlin Wing and classmate Carolynne Minkowski (Baltimore, Md.) won the "b" flight championship final over Rahini Gupta, 6-9, 9-3, 7-9, 9-7, 9-5. In the men's consolation final, Trinity sophomore Nadeem Osman (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) blanked Tim Nagel, 9-2, 9-1, 9-0.

The championship titles by Helal and Samper give Trinity a sweep of the men's and women's team and individual national championships for the first time in College history. No school from outside the Ivy League has ever had the men's and women's individual champion in the same year.

 

TRINITY RESULTS (except consolation rounds)

Women A Flight

First Round

#1 Amina Helal (TC) d. Clare Whipple (Williams) 3-0 9-0, 9-0, 9-1

#8 Pam Saunders (TC) d. Rita Monson 3-0 9-0, 9-0, 9-0

Frances Ho (Yale) d. Mollie Anderson (TC) 3-0 9-3, 9-4, 9-4

Anjali Ponni Rajkumer (F and M) d. Samantha Lewins (TC) 3-0 9-4, 9-0, 9-5

#2 Lynn Leong d. Melinda Lee (Cornell) 3-0 9-2, 0-0, 9-3

Second Round

Helal d. Colby Hall (Harvard) 3-0 9-1, 9-0, 9-1

Ho d. Saunders 3-0 9-5, 9-1, 9-1

Leong d. Devon Dalzell (Yale) 3-0 9-1, 9-0, 9-0

Quarter-finals

Helal d. Ho 3-0 9-2, 9-0, 9-2

Leong d. #7 Lindsey Wilkens (Harvard) 3-0 9-2, 9-1, 9-5

Semi-finals

Helal d. #4 Runa Reta (Pennsylvania) 3-2 6-9, 9-4, 9-3, 1-9, 9-4

Leong d. #3 Louisa Hall (Harvard) 3-0 9-4, 9-1, 9-2

Finals

Helal d. Leong 3-0 9-2, 9-1, 9-0

Women B Flight

First Round

Carolynne Minkowski (TC) d. #4 Kate Esselin 3-0 9-3, 9-4, 9-4

Second Round

Minkowski d. Ali Roche 3-0 9-4, 9-2, 9-2

Quarter-finals

Minkowski d. #6 Wendy Huang (Wellesley) 3-0 10-8, 9-1, 9-5

Semi-finals

Minkowski d. #1 Hilary Thorndike (Harvard) 3-2 9-2, 10-8, 3-9, 6-9, 9-5

Finals

Minkowski d. #3 Rahini Gupta 3-0 9-2, 9-2, 9-1

Men

First Round

#1 Bernardo Samper (TC) d. Hamed Anvari 3-0 9-3, 9-1, 9-1

Michael Blumberg (Harvard) d. Nadeem Osman 3-2 4-9, 4-9, 9-1, 10-8, 9-1

Peter Grote d. Lefika Ragontse (TC) 3-2 7-9, 7-9, 9-1, 9-6, 9-2

Win Tangjaitrong (Williams) d. Pat Malloy (TC) 3-0 9-2, 9-1, 9-3

Nickolas Kyme (TC) d. Eric Pearson 3-0 9-0, 9-0, 9-0

Anshul Manchanda (Yale) d. Gaurav Juneja (TC) 3-1 9-3, 9-10, 9-6, 9-2

Rohan Bhappu (TC) d. Parth Doshi (Williams) 3-2 9-4, 3-9, 9-6, 6-9, 9-1

#2 Michael Ferreira (TC) d. Ryan Byrnes 3-0 9-3, 9-1, 9-1

Second Round

Samper d. Blumberg 3-0 9-1, 9-3, 9-5

Kyme d. #6 Richard Repetto (Pennsylvania) 3-1

Bhappu d. Ryan Donegan (Dartmouth) 3-0 9-4, 9-4, 9-1

Ferreira d. Peter Kelly (Princeton) 3-1 7-9, 9-0, 9-3, 9-2

Quarter-finals

Samper d. Javier Castilla (Denison) 3-0 9-4, 9-3, 9-4

#3 Will Evans (Princeton) d. Kyme 3-2 9-5, 9-6, 2-9, 2-9, 9-2

Ferreira d. Bhappu 3-0 9-3, 9-6, 10-8

Semi-finals

Samper d. #5 David Yik (Princeton) 3-1 5-9, 9-0, 10-8, 9-0

Evans d. Ferreira 3-1 10-9, 9-5, 9-10, 9-2

Finals

Samper d. Evans 3-1 4-9, 9-2, 9-4, 9-5

FOR PHOTOS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT PRINCETON CLICK HERE http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/news/sports_brochures/wsquash/singlesphotos.htm