{"id":1122,"date":"2018-03-25T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:26:21","slug":"boys-squash-post-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/03\/25\/boys-squash-post-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Squash Post-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Grace Wang (III)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boys\u2019 squash had a successful season this year, boasting a 6-0 record. Players Krish Bhavnani (VI), Chris Zachary (V), Collin Wen (IV), Alex Chiang (IV), Jeffrey Xiao (V), Waleed Nisar (IV), and Jason Lefkort (III) were this year\u2019s members of the varsity team, which placed fifteenth at High School Nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some outstanding records were held by Zachary, who maintained 5-2; Wen, who upheld 6-1; Chiang, who ended at 5-2; and Xiao, who finished with 4-3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team dominated many matches this season, winning against Blair Academy 7-0 twice, Princeton Day 7-0, Poly Prep 7-0, Rumson Fair Haven 7-0, Delbarton 7-0 and 5-2, Milburn 6-1, Lawrenceville 4-3, and Shipley 5-2. Pingry lost to SCH 2-5, Haverford 0-7, and Brooks School 3-4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team traveled to Philadelphia for the High School Team National Championships seeded sixteenth going in, and, as stated earlier, they left the competition placing fifteenth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the season, Bhavnani and Zachary competed in the NJ High School Squash Championship on January 7, with Bhavnani walking away with the win. Bhavnani claimed the team\u2019s sixth consecutive win of the championship title by winning 3-1 over Zachary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though Bhavnani will be leaving this year, the team will keep their sights on a seventh consecutive win and aim to continue performing exceptionally in the years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Grace Wang (III) Boys\u2019 squash had a successful season this year, boasting a 6-0 record. Players Krish Bhavnani (VI), Chris Zachary (V), Collin Wen (IV), Alex Chiang (IV), Jeffrey Xiao (V), Waleed Nisar (IV), and Jason Lefkort (III) were this year\u2019s members of the varsity team, which placed fifteenth at High School Nationals. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,74],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}