Currently ranked second, the Bulldogs will likely move to the top spot in the national rankings with this win. Since returning from the winter break, the Bulldogs beat Columbia and Williams decisively and edged out Cornell 5-4. Yale was also undefeated going into the match, with wins over four top-twenty teams. They defeated sixth-ranked Cornell and eighth-ranked Franklin & Marshall in the week before the Yale match. Playing with a substantially different line-up, the Bantams opened their season with six 9-0 victories, securing their 250th-straight win in a match with Williams on December 10. File Photo: John Roberts (Yale) - Ĭoming into the 2011-2012 season, Trinity had lost twelve players to graduation, including four 2010-2011 All-Americans. Yale came within a match of upsetting Trinity in last season’s championship finals, but the Bantams prevailed 5-4 with a clutch performance by Chris Binnie.
In the 2008-2009 Potter Cup finals, defending national individual champion Baset Chaudhry came from behind in the fifth game to defeat Mauricio Sanchez and clinch Trinity’s eleventh national title. During the 2005-2006 season, freshman Gustav Detter battled back from match point to defeat four-time national individual champion Yasser El Halaby and keep the streak alive. Some of the Bantams’ most dramatic wins during the streak came against Princeton. The Bantams have not been without formidable opponents, though. Harvard, the last team to beat Trinity, nearly defeated them in the 20 national team finals. They also won the inaugural New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament in 2007 and have successfully defended their title every year since. Trinity has dominated men’s college squash for over a decade, taking 13 consecutive national titles back to Hartford.
More recently, Penn State’s women’s volleyball team won 109 matches in a streak that ended in 2010, and the UConn women’s basketball team won 90 games in a streak that ended last December. Yale’s swimming team had a 201-meet winning streak between 19. Miami’s men’s tennis team won 137 matches between 19, and the UCLA men’s basketball team won 88 in a row under John Wooden in the early 1970s. Trinity’s streak far surpasses the number of wins of other notable intercollegiate winning streaks. File Photo: Trinity prior to the 2010-2011 National Championship match with Yale The Bulldogs, who are coached by Dave Talbott, are the first team to defeat Trinity since 1998, when the Bantams’ record-breaking 252-match streak began. Playing at Yale’s Brady Squash Center, Yale upset the top-ranked Bantams by a score of 5-4. New Haven, CT - Yale defeated the Trinity College men’s squash team today, ending the longest winning streak in the history of varsity intercollegiate sports in the United States.
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