Hartford, Conn. - The Trinity College Bantam’s men’s and women’s squash teams competed again this evening in the College Squash Association (CSA) National Singles Championships at George A. Kellner Squash Center. For the women, Trinity junior defending champion and top-seeded Amina Helal (Manchester, England), won both of her matches to reach her second consecutive national final. In the quarterfinals, Helal defeated fellow Bantam junior Pam Saunders (Harare, Zimbabwe) 9-1, 9-3, 9-7, and surrendered a total of seven points in three games in her semi-final win. Helal will meet the No. 2-seeded player. Runa Reta (Calgary, Alberta), of Pennsylvania, in the finals at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

On the men’s side, returning champion and No. 2-seeded, Trinity sophomore Bernardo Samper (Bogotá, Colombia) won his quarterfinal match before falling in the semis to Will Evans (Auckland, New Zealand), of Princeton. Bantam junior Michael Ferreira (Stamford, England), the No. 5 seed, made his way to the semifinals as well, before falling in heartbreaking fashion, 6-9, 7-9, 9-3, 9-7, 9-1 to top-seeded freshman Yasser El Halaby (Cairo, Egypt), of Princeton. El Halaby will meet Evans in an all Princeton men’s final at 1 p.m. tomorrow.

Women A Flight
First Round
#1 Amina Helal (TC) d. Rohini Gupta 9-0, 9-0, 9-3
#16 Clare Austin (TC) d. Sara Coleman 7-9, 9-4, 10-8, 9-6
#8 Pam Saunders (TC) d. Devon Dalzell 9-0, 9-1, 9-2
#12 Isabel Restrepo (TC) d. Julia Drury 9-2, 9-5, 9-1
#14 Linda McNair d. Bronwyn Cooper (TC) 9-7, 7-9, 10-8, 9-4
#3 Lynn Leong (TC) d. Lorin Riley 9-0, 9-2, 9-2
#10 Larissa Stephenson (TC) d. Lauren Doline 9-6, 9-7, 9-4
#15 Gina Wilkinson d. Rhea Bhandare (TC) 9-3, 9-6, 9-3
Second Round
Helal d. Austin 9-1, 9-5, 9-1
Saunders d. #9 Lillian Rosenthal 9-6, 9-5, 9-4
#5 Ruchika Kumar d. Restrepo 9-5, 9-3, 8-10, 9-5
Leong d. #14 Linda McNair 9-1, 9-0, 9-0
#7 Amy Gross d. Stephenson 9-0, 9-5, 10-8
Quarter finals
Helal d. Saunders 9-1, 9-3, 9-7
Quibell d. Kumar 9-2, 9-4, 9-1
Leong d. Wilkins 9-7, 9-0, 9-1
Reta d. Gross 9-0, 9-1, 9-1
Semifinals
Helal d. Quibell 9-3, 9-4, 9-0
Reta d. Leong 10-9, 9-6, 9-0
Championship Match
(2) Runa Reta -vs- (1) Amina Helal - Sunday 2:00 pm.

Women B Flight
First Round
#3 Meridy Vollmer d. Lisa Marx 9-2, 9-3, 9-0
Second Round
Vollmer d. #15 Jessica Vyrostko 9-1, 10-8, 9-5
Quarter finals
Vollmer d. Lue Yen 9-5, 9-3, 9-4
Semifinals
Mockerman d. Vollmer 1-9, 9-6, 9-3, 9-0

Men’s A Flight
First Round
#19 Dylan Patterson d. Jacques Swanipole (TC)
# 8 Mathew Serediak d. Carl Baglio (TC) 6-9, 9-7, 9-5, 9-6
#5 Michael Ferreira (TC) d. #29 Ryan Byrnes 9-2, 9-0, 9-0
#11 Nick Kyme (TC) d. #23 Ziggy Whitman 9-4, 9-2, 9-4
#14 Yvain Badan (TC) d. #17 Anshul Manchanda 8-10, 9-0, 9-7, 9-2
#10 Ryan Donegan d. #22 Pat Malloy (TC) 9-5, 9-6, 9-0
#18 Nadeem Osman (TC) d. #16 Javier Castilla 9-1, 9-4, 4-9, 9-2
#2 Bernardo Samper (TC) d. #31 Jacob Himmelrich
Second Round
Ferreira d. #12 James Bullock 9-6, 9-3, 9-3
Kyme d. #6 William Broadbent 9-6, 3-9, 9-5, 9-7
#3 Will Evans d. Badan 8-9, 9-4, 9-0, 9-6
Samper d. Osman 9-1, 10-8, 9-0
Quarter Finals
El Halaby d. Repetto 9-5, 9-4, 9-7
Ferreira d. Hingworth 9-6, 9-3, 9-3
Evans d. Kyme 8-9, 9-4, 9-0, 9-6
Samper d. Yik 9-0, 4-9, 9-2, 9-0
Semifinals
Will Evans d. Bernardo Samper 9-3, 1-9, 3-9, 10-8, 4-0 Def.
Yasser El Halaby d. Mark Ferreira 6-9, 7-9, 9-3, 9-7, 9-1.
Championship Match
Will Evans -vs- Yasser El Halaby Sunday 1:00 p.m.