{"id":1695,"date":"2015-03-20T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2015-03-20T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:36:52","slug":"williston-squash-team-finishes-third-in-new-englands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/03\/20\/williston-squash-team-finishes-third-in-new-englands\/","title":{"rendered":"Williston Squash Team Finishes Third in New Englands"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Coach Gunn<\/p>\n

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Girls V Squash vs. Berkshire 2015. Photo by Kenzie Possee ’15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Defending champions Williston Northampton School earned a third-place finish in the New England Interscholastic Squash Association (NEISA) Class C Championships held at Pomfret School on Saturday, February 28.<\/p>\n

Led by three Easthampton natives\u2014senior co-captain Julia Valine, fellow senior Hannah King, and sophomore Lindsay Whipple\u2014Williston\u2019s 41 points trailed only Greens Farm Academy (56) and host Pomfret (49) in earning the third place by one point over Canterbury School (40).\u00a0 Originally seeded fifth overall, this terrific performance was made all the more special as the eight other teams voted Williston to receive the prize for best sportsmanship.<\/p>\n

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Girls V Squash vs. Berkshire 2015. Photo by Kenzie Possee ’15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ms. Valine was a finalist at #2, as was Ms. Whipple at #6\u2014both won in the quarter-finals and semi-finals before tough losses in the championship round.\u00a0 Ms. King won her #7 division with three strong victories to earn her first New England Interscholastic Championship.\u00a0 In her semi-final match, Ms. King rallied back to win 12-10 in the decisive fifth game over Canterbury before winning the finals 11-7, 11-6, 11-8 over GFA.<\/p>\n

Caroline Borden (Amherst) won the consolation round at #1 to come in fifth after being seeded eighth.\u00a0 Sofia Triana also won the consolation round at #4 to finish fifth after being the ninth seed. Senior co-captain Hannah Lee played a terrific match to earn sixth place at #2 and senior Tina Zhang won one match to finish over her original seeding at #5.<\/p>\n

All seven players won at least one match on the day.\u00a0 Given the narrow difference between third and fourth place, each of those matches made a crucial difference making this performance truly a team accomplishment for and by seven hardworking young women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Coach Gunn Defending champions Williston Northampton School earned a third-place finish in the New England Interscholastic Squash Association (NEISA) Class C Championships held at Pomfret School on Saturday, February 28. Led by three Easthampton natives\u2014senior co-captain Julia Valine, fellow senior Hannah King, and sophomore Lindsay Whipple\u2014Williston\u2019s 41 points trailed only Greens Farm Academy (56) … Continue reading Williston Squash Team Finishes Third in New Englands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}