Athletics News and Press Releases

February 17, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carole Grills
(413) 585-2703

Smith Squash Upsets Haverford at Howe Cup

Northampton, MA: The Pioneers upset Haverford yesterday 5-4 in the quarterfinals of the Epps Cup Division of the Howe Cup women's national college team championships at Yale University. With a shake up in the lineup due to illness, the Pioneers were able to pull out the victory as Beatrice Bircher (Bern, Switzerland), Kate Whitesell (Easton, MD), Talia Williams (Montpelier, VT), Anna Reznickova (Chropyne, Czech Republic) and Mercede Pepper (Mendocino, CA) won their matches, the last by default as Haverford had only eight players. Smith and Haverford are ranked fifth and fourth respectively in the D Division where eight teams are playing off for the 25th spot in the country.

Smith will face number one ranked Wesleyan today in the semi-finals at 4:30 pm.

Position	Smith	Haverford	Winner	Scores
1	Beatrice Bircher	Vanessa Surgeon	Smith	9-5 9-1 9-0
2	Kate Whitesell	Sarah Gilarsky	Smith	9-3 9-2 9-4
3	Talia Williams	Allyson Scherb	Smith	4-9 9-7 9-7 9-0
4	Jessica Macleod	Betsy Schmidt	Haverford	9-7 9-1 9-4
5	Mary Opler	Margot Elton	Haverford	9-0 9-0 9-1
6	Sara Smyth	Karen Lavi	Haverford	9-2 9-4 9-0
7	Alice Reznickova	Sarita Kapadia	Smith	9-0 9-1 9-3
8	Katrina Dugan	Monique Wong	Haverford	9-4 9-0 9-1
9	Mereceds Pepper	no player	Smith	default

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