Penn Charter performed well at the top and bottom of the team ladder, but visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy won the third through seventh flights to clinch a victory.
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Penn Charter, the host for last Thursday's girls' squash match, performed well at the top and bottom of the team ladder, but visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy won the third through seventh flights to clinch the team victory, 5-4.
It was the season opener for the SCH Blue Devils, and the third match of the season for the Quakers of Penn Charter. PC had opened up a week earlier with an 8-1 victory over the Baldwin School junior varsity. Next, in a match against Germantown Friends, GFS won four of the top seven flights, while PC prevailed in the eighth and ninth positions.
Last Thursday, the Quakers did very well in the early going. Two freshmen, number eight Audrey Abernethy and number nine Ana Buckley, secured 3-0 wins. Abernethy recorded scores of 11-6, 11-6, 11-7 against SCH senior Anna Mazzarelli, while Buckley beat junior Lexi Jordan, 11-3, 11-8, 11-6.
Due to a potential scheduling conflict for one of the players, the number two match was moved up earlier in the program. Here, PC sophomore Alex Jaffe won 11-2, 11-3, 11-4 over SCH senior Nathalie Taylor, who will go on to play for Dartmouth College.
At the end of the afternoon, following five SCH victories, Jaffe's twin sister Sam also went through in straight games in the top flight. She overcame Blue Devils junior Allie Stoddard, 11-6, 11-5, 11-6.
In general, the victories for SCH proved harder to come by. The only one that ended 3-0 was the number five match, where the visitors' Eloise Levin, a freshman, topped PC junior Savannah Abernethy, 11-7, 11-3, 11-6.
Levin's sister Lexi, a junior, won the sixth flight 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5 over Quakers senior Sydney DelBello, while up at number four Charter's Lexi Bari won the opening game, 11-6, but fellow senior Winslow Tracy of the visiting side secured the next three, 11-6, 11-8, 11-9.
There were also two seniors contesting the seventh flight. The Blue Devils' Isabella DeCesare began with a 12-10 win but then fell behind Charter's Alex Glomb, who prevailed 11-7, 11-6 in the next two frames. DeCesare then regouped to take the fourth and fifth games, 12-10, 11-8, winning the match.
Springside Chestnut Hill also came out on top in a five-game battle in the third position. In a joust between juniors, SCH's Helena Fournaris captured games one and two, 11-8, 11-4, but Frances Guenther of the Quakers evened things up with a pair of 11-8 wins. Fournaris had to fight off a match point in the fifth before finally winning, 14-12.
