Coaches tweaked their lineups to produce favorable match-ups.

Players donned their favorite bandanas and wristbands in homage to the squash gods who were surely watching from above.

Parents bit their nails and teammates pumped their fists.

But even the state-of-the-art climate control system at Yale's Brady Squash Center could not prevent the temperature from rising a few degrees.

With all the trappings that accompany a national championship event, the Trinity men's squash team outlasted Harvard, 6-3, to claim a third consecutive national title in yesterday's Potter Division finals in New Haven.

Only three weeks after narrowly beating the Crimson 5-4, the Bantams again averted an upset and were able to extend their winning streak to 52 matches.

One of yesterday's featured match pitted Harvard's Deepak Abraham against Trinity's Michael Ferreira, an English phenom who has earned the No. 1 position in a Bantam lineup loaded with international talent.

Looking to ride the coattails of Saturday's splendid upset of Princeton's David Yik, the No. 2 ranked player in the country, Abraham eventually succumbed in five games to Ferreira.