Howe Cup Tournament
hosted by Yale University
at New Haven, Conn.

Flight B
First Round: Bates 8, Bowdoin 1
Seminfinals: Bates 5, St. Lawrence 4
Finals: Pennsylvania 8, Bates 1

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Coach John Illig led the women's squash team to its highest finish in school history this season. The Bobcats finished 10th in the nation, earning runner-up status in the B flight of the Howe Cup championships at Yale University. Bates downed rival Bowdoin for the third time this season in the opening round, 8-1, before narrowly defeating St. Lawrence University in the semifinals, 5-4. The Bobcats fell in the finals of the bracket, losing to the University of Pennsylvania, 8-1.

Against Bowdoin, Bates breezed to the victory with six of their eight wins including at least one 9-0 game, highlighted by a perfect sweep from senior captain Jess Greslick (Windham, Maine) at No. 9. In the St. Lawrence match, the Bobcats trailed, 4-3, with two matches to play. Senior captain and All-American Aisha Shah (Bombay, India) fell behind at No. 1, two games to one, but rallied to take the final two games, 9-1 and 9-4. With the match evened up, junior Katie Percarpio (Middlebury, Conn.) secured the victory at No. 7. Percarpio needed tiebreakers to win the first two games, 10-9, but won 9-3 in the third to send Bates to the finals against Pennsylvania. The Bobcats had defeated a short-handed Penn squad earlier in the season, but the Quakers at full strength proved to be too much for the Bobcats. First-year Liz Wagoner (Peterborough, N.H.) picked up Bates' lone victory in the final match, completing the Bobcats' only perfect weekend of the tournament.

Bates 8, Bowdoin 1
1 BATES Shah def O'Brien          10-9, 9-6, 9-0 
2 BATES Persing def Irving        10-8, 9-1, 9-10, 9-2
3 BOWD  Hodgkins def Brush         9-2, 9-5, 5-9, 9-3 
4 BATES Loring def Kaufman        9-0, 9-0, 9-3 
5 BATES Smith def Schneider       9-2, 9-1, 9-5 
6 BATES Wagoner def Miness        9-0, 9-3, 9-1
7 BATES Percarpio def Moran       9-3, 9-0, 9-1 
8 BATES Austin def Davidson       9-1, 9-0, 9-5 
9 BATES Greslick def Oppenheim    9-0, 9-0, 9-0 


Bates 5, St. Lawrence 4
1 BATES Shah  def Kreiner          9-2, 2-9, 2-9, 9-1, 9-4 
2 SLU   Kimble  def Persing        9-1, 9-2, 9-5 
3 SLU   Tuten  def Brush           9-0, 9-7, 9-0
4 SLU   Anderson  def Loring       9-4, 9-7, 9-0
5 BATES Smith  def Pierrepont      9-0, 9-1, 9-2
6 BATES Wagoner def Hall           9-3, 9-4, 9-0
7 BATES Percarpio  def Glawischnig 10-8, 10-9, 9-3
8 SLU   Davie  def Austin          9-5, 0-9, 5-9, 10-9, 9-3
9 BATES Greslick  def Gallagher    9-6, 9-7, 9-7


Pennsylvania 8, Bates 1
1 PENN  Reta  def Shah             9-0, 9-0, 9-0
2 PENN  Wegner  def Persing        9-0, 9-1, 9-1
3 PENN  McNair  def Brush          9-0, 9-6, 9-1
4 PENN  Gupta  def Loring          9-1, 9-4, 9-0 
5 PENN  Riley  def Smith           8-10, 9-7, 9-6, 9-6
6 BATES Wagoner  def Fetter        3-9, 10-9, 4-9, 9-4, 9-5
7 PENN  Black  def Percarpio       9-10, 9-3, 9-4, 9-3
8 PENN  O'Neal  def Austin         9-3, 9-5, 9-0
9 PENN  O'Connor  def Greslick     9-1, 9-0, 9-6 



Winners in bold