Harvard easily rolled over the Bears in its season opener Friday, dropping only one game en route to a 9-0 blowout. The Crimson had already handily defeated Brown a week earlier in the preseason Ivy scrimmage despite being slowed by injuries and illness.
“I think we’re coming out really strong,” Thorndike said, adding that both Yale and Princeton were “beatable” if the Crimson was playing at full strength.
Blumberg, the intercollegiate No. 10, playing at No. 4 in her first collegiate squash match, did not drop a single point to her opponent, Zarah Rahman, blanking her by three straight game scores of 9-0.
Junior Allison Fast, playing at No. 8, was the only player to lose a game, claiming a 3-1 win over Julie Flygare.
—Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu.