NEW HAVEN, CT (February 19, 2010) – Playing up a bracket in the Chaffee Division of the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships, the Vassar College men's squash team dropped a hard-fought 8-1 match to a strong Cal Berkeley squad on Friday in the first round of play at Choate Rosemary Hall School.

The Brewers fall to 4-12 and will take on Haverford College at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Vassar downed the Fords 5-4 in the opening match of the season.

Freshman Max Middleton picked up Vassar's lone win with a 3-0 (11-6, 11-8, 11-9) win over Kedar Viswarntran of Cal-Berkeley. In an indication of the competitiveness of the match, four Brewers went to four games, as No. 1 freshman Jacob Harris, No. 2 junior Arjun Jain, No. 4 senior Henk Isom, and No. 6 freshman Andrew Lindsay all dropped 3-1 decisions.

Cal Berkeley 8, Vassar 1

1. Dominic Gaffney (Cal) def. Jacob Harris (VC), 3-1 (11-8,11-6,9-11,11-4)
2. Aditya Gupta (Cal) def. Arjun Jain (VC), 3-1 (11-4,11-2,9-11,11-1)
3. Himanshu Jatia (Cal) def. Arjun Agarwala (VC), 3-0 (11-5,11-6,11-3)
4. Ben Seelig (Cal) def. Henk Isom (VC), 3-1 (11-8,11-4,14-16,11-3)
5. Hussain Raza (Cal) def. Kyle Holter (VC), 3-0 (11-5,11-8,11-5)
6. Matthew Waid (Cal) def. Andrew Lindsay (VC), 3-1 (8-11,11-2,11-8,11-8)
7. Max Middleton (VC) def. Kedar Viswarntran (Cal), 3-0 (11-6,11-8,11-9)
8. Anirudh Todi (Cal) def. Ansser Sadiq, 3-0 (11-4,11-8,11-6)
9. Liam King (Cal) def. Robert Ruggiero (VC), 3-0 (11-4,11-8,11-6.