PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - The Dickinson women's squash team suffered a pair of non-conference defeats on Saturday falling to both Amherst College and Bates College at the Penn Squash Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

Match One - Mammoths 8, Red Devils 1

Inside the Match

Courtney Trail would earn the Devils lone point in the match coming from 0-1 down to knock off Lauren Well 3-1 at the No. 2 spot. Two other battles would make it to four games with Amna Fayyaz taking a 1-0 lead at the top flight, before dropping a 3-1 decision to Tanmai Pathak. At the No. 4 flight, Anna O'Connor tried to rally back from 2-0 down with an 11-9 win in the third game but lost the fourth to Tana Delalio.

Results

1. Tanmai Pathak (AC) over Amna Fayyaz (DC) - 9-11, 11-8, 11-3, 11-8
2. Courtney Trail (DC) over Lauren Well (AC) - 8-11, 12-10, 11-9, 11-4
3. Daksha Pathak (AC) over Lindsay Kuracina (DC) - 11-9, 11-6, 11-7
4. Tana Delalio (AC) over Anna O'Connor (DC) - 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5
5. Callie Delalio (AC) over Eloise Nimoityn (DC) - 13-11, 11-6, 11-7
6. Lilly Soroko (AC) over Whitney Finney (DC) - 11-5, 11-6, 11-6
7. Tilney-Sandberg (AC) over Cate Moll (DC) - 11-2, 11-5, 11-3
8. M. Pearson (AC) over Ellissa Goldman (DC) - 11-3, 11-7, 11-4
9. Frances Burton (AC) over Emerson Rains (DC) - 11-3, 11-3, 11-6

Match Two - Bobcats 5, Red Devils 4

Inside the Match

Dickinson earned a hard-fought five-game victory at the No. 1 spot with Fayyaz holding off a furious rally from Andrea Martagon after taking a 2-0 lead. Trail and Kuracina dispatched Erika Maria Parker-Schmidt and Katherine Manternach in three games at the second and third flights. O'Connor would fall behind 1-0, before ripping off three straight games. Flights five through nine would go to Bates with Nimoityn, Finney, and Moll each getting a game, but not being able to hold on. 

Results

1. Amna Fayyaz (DC) over Andrea Martagon (BC) - 11-8, 11-8, 10-12, 7-11, 11-6
2. Courtney Trail (DC) over Erika Maria Parker-Schmidt (BC) - 14-12, 11-9, 11-9
3. Lindsay Kuracina (DC) over Katherine Manternach (BC) - 13-11, 11-2, 12-10
4. Anna O'Connor (DC) over Grace Flaherty (BC) - 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5
5. Natasha Jones (BC) over Eloise Nimoityn (DC) - 4-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-5
6. Ella Lungstrum (BC) over Whitney Finney (DC) - 11-6, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6
7. Victoria Haghighi (BC) over Cate Moll (DC) - 11-2, 11-7, 6-11, 11-3
8. Marina McGuire (BC) over Ellissa Goldman (DC) - 11-7, 11-5, 11-3
9. Natalie Bachman (BC) over Emerson Rains (DC) - 11-7, 8-11, 11-3, 12-10
10. Zaya Rothenberg (BC) over Katelynn Young (DC) - 11-4, 11-3, 11-4 (Did not count)

Next on the Court

Dickinson will now be off until January 15th when they battle Bowdoin College in Cambridge, Massachusetts at noon.