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Abraham Leads Squash's Strong Showing at Individuals

Gasping for breath and on his last legs, Fong made a valiant effort to outlast Barry in the fifth game. Barry, however, proved to be the stronger player with a late run that dashed Fong's spirit and emptied his fuel tank for good.

Again down 2-0 in games in his final match with William's Max Monteglas, Barry, and his trademark bloody knee, roared back to capture the next two games.

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With Monteglas experiencing Fong-like exhaustion and clinging to a 14-13 lead, Barry tinned out and gave his opponent the break he needed to win the match. "I thanked the man upstairs when he tinned out," Monteglas said after the match. "I can't feel my legs at all."

Harvard's James Bullock also played sound squash after being eliminated from the main draw. The Jamaican coasted through the consolation bracket and eliminated Williams' Parth Doshi to capture the Consolation II title.

Karlen and co-captain Shondip Ghosh each won two matches before being eliminated in the quarterfinals. Ghosh was swept by Abraham in a much tighter game then the score would indicate, while Karlen bowed out to the eventual champion Yik.

Ghosh, Karlen, and Abraham will all likely finish the season ranked in the top-ten and earn First Team All-America honors. Patterson, Bullock, and Gray Witcher should be shoe-ins for Second Team All-America status.

On the women's side, Louisa Hall and Margaret Elias each won three matches to advance to the quarterfinals. As the draw would have it, however, their quarterfinal matches were no cakewalks.

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