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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (February 4, 2011) – The Mount Holyoke College women's squash team won the Seven Sisters Championship for the sixth consecutive year, sweeping Wellesley College, Smith College, and host Vassar College 9-0 in a round-robin format on Saturday at Kenyon Hall.
Wellesley finished second with an 8-1 over Vassar and a 7-2 win over Smith. Smith defeated Vassar in the closest match of the day, 5-4, to finish with a 1-2 record on the day and third place. Vassar went 0-3 and took fourth.
Ranked No. 13 in the most recent College Squash Association (CSA) poll, Mount Holyoke entered the tournament the heavy favorite. With first place sealed for Mount Holyoke after two rounds of play, No. 26 Wellesley and No. 24 Smith fittingly met in the final match of the day with an even 1-1 record to decide second place.
A match closer than the score would indicate, it featured five five-set matches- two of which accounted for Smith's two points- and two four-set matches. At the No. 1 position, Rosemary O'Connor of Wellesley knocked off Jacqueline Zhou of Smith in straight sets 11-6, 12-10, 12-10. O'Connor went 2-1 on the day and was named to the Seven Sisters All-Tournament Team.
Mount Holyoke's No. 1 Randima Ranaweera and No. 2 Shara Robertson each went 3-0 en route to the Championship and earned All-Tournament team honors. Clair Oblamski and Helen Queenan from Smith and
Nina Punukollu from Vassar rounded out the All-Tournament team.
The Brewers (4-11) return to action and celebrate Senior Day at the Vassar Team Challenge on Saturday, February 11, against Wesleyan at 11:00 a.m. and Drexel at 3:30 p.m.
The Seven Sisters was conceived in November 1980, when Barnard hosted Bryn Mawr, New Rochelle, and Vassar in a four team basketball tournament, won by New Rochelle. Following the tournament, the original Seven Sisters institutions - Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley - joined to conduct championships in common sports. Radcliffe (now Harvard in the athletic arena) was invited but opted not to join, and Barnard (now competing as Columbia) was unable to participate in all championships.
Without Radcliffe and Barnard, only five of the original Seven Sisters remained. Haverford and Swarthmore were invited to join the championships as cousins, and depending on the tournament, several other schools have been invited to compete, including: Agnes Scott, Haverford, Swarthmore, Simmons and Elms. Seven Sisters Tournaments are currently held in crew, cross country, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, and volleyball.
