Monday, January 5, 2015

As Day 3 begins...

Day 3 begins and we'll bring you up to speed from Day 2 (apologies for the lack of blog posts, internet connection issues), and what a day it was. The heart strings were pulled with three epic encounters where Team USA were on the wrong end of 3-2 losses in round of 16 matches to make it into the last 8 of the BJO. Dana Santry, Conner Stolz and Marina Stefanoni - who was 2-0 up against the #1 seed) - deserve a special mention for the way in which they represented their country under extreme pressure.

Along with those players, we've had some fantastic individual performances from all of our player's over the course of the first two days. Emily Schuster saved a match ball in the 5th to pull out a 13-11 win. Andrew Barr came within a whisker of upsetting a Malaysian junior falling short in the fifth and Timmy Brownell followed up a disappointing loss to his USJO final opponent - another intensely close five games - by beating an up and coming English player to proceed.

We have named but a few, we have 3 BU15's playing off for 17-20th place, and the same with the GU17's. As first times go, this has been a great showing from the U.S. Team.

Monday sees Day 3 and the day in which our places will place. Some have one match, others two, but with some tired bodies and minds, the coaches will be doing all the can to motivate and inspire, not that it takes much work given how proud they've been to wear Team USA on their backs this week.

Continue to follow the action on twitter @TeamUSASquash

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