WATERVILLE, Maine -- While many individual matches were competitive, the No. 20 nationally ranked Bates men's squash team defeated No. 26 Colby by a decisive 7-2 score in a road NESCAC match Thursday night.
The win made it 18 years in a row that the Bobcats have defeated both Bowdoin and Colby in the regular season.
Colby (2-5) won its two points in five-set marathons at the second and fourth positions on the ladder.
Bates (4-5) captured two of its points in five-game marathons as well, with sophomore Omar Attia (Cairo, Egypt) defeating Chase Holding 16-14, 11-4, 11-4, 13-11, 11-7 at the No. 3 position and first-year Jesper Phillips (Moss, Norway) prevailing by a wild 5-11, 16-14, 5-11, 11-0, 11-9 score over Jason Brodo at No. 5.
Junior Graham Bonnell (Southport, Conn.) won in straight games at No. 1 for the Bobcats, while junior Benni McComish (Williamstown, Mass.) and sophomore Dylan Muldoon (Devonshire, Bermuda) did the same at the eighth and ninth positions. Winning by 3-1 scores for Bates were junior Garon Rothenberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.) at No. 6 and senior McLeod Abbott (Bronxville, N.Y.) at No. 7.
Bates next faces Connecticut College Friday at 6pm at Yale University.
#20 Bates 7, #26 Colby 2
Jan. 17, 2019 at Colby
1. Graham Bonnell (B) def. Elliot Gross (C) 11-6, 12-10, 11-9
2. Alex Spafford (C) def. Mahmoud Yousry (B) 12-10, 5-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-5
3. Omar Attia (B) def. Chase Holding (C) 16-14, 11-4, 11-4, 13-11, 11-7
4. Alexander Kurtin (C) def. Coley Cannon (B) 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 13-11, 11-9
5. Jesper Phillips (B) def. Jason Brodo (C) 5-11, 16-14, 5-11, 11-0, 11-9
6. Garon Rothenberg (B) def. Ryan Santoro (C) 11-13, 12-10, 13-11, 11-4
7. McLeod Abbott (B) def. Tyler Burt (C) 11-3, 13-11, 7-11, 11-7
8. Benni McComish (B) def. Charlie Beauregard (C) 11-7, 11-3, 13-11
9. Dylan Muldoon (B) def. Duda Voldman (C) 11-8, 11-9, 11-4
