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Fraibergs Capture Intercollegiate Squash Titles

Brother, Sister Win National Competitions; Both Ranked Number One

There were two names in squash at this weekend's Intercolligiate squash Association (ISA) individual tournaments--Harvard and Fraiberg.

The Crimson's brother-sister tandem, Jeremy and Jordanna Fraiberg, both won their respective championships Sunday and are now the first-ranked amateur squash players in the country.

"It was a Fraiberg weekend," said Brooke Bailey, tri-captain of the women's squash team.

At Vassar College, senior Jeremy Fraiberg beat the defending intercollegiate champion, Harvard sophomore Adrian Ezra, in the Finals.

Meanwhile, about 150 miles southeast in Princeton, N.J., Fraiberg's younger sister Jordanna also dethroned a former champ, downing long-time nemesis Berkely Belknap of Yale, by a score of 3-1.

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Last year Ezra dispatched Jeremy Fraiberg in three straight games, but this time the Harvard senior survived a grueling five-game match to capture his first ISA title.

The men's final between Ezra and Fraiberg lasted almost two hours and came down to a deciding fifth game between the two Harvard racked wizards.

The men had played each other four times this season, with Ezra leading the Series 3-1, but both players said they knew that the match would be a toss up.

"Playing against Jeremy, It's just a matter of whose better on the day," Ezra said.

"I felt he had the edge going into the match but we both know each others' games so well," Fraiberg said.

Ezra took the first game of the finals, 18-14, but Fraiberg battled back in the second with a 15-6 win.

Fraiberg also win the third game, 15-12, to put him one game away from winning his first title.

Despite heavy fatigue, Ezra was not about to let the title slip away so easily, as he mounted a comeback in the fourth with a 18-15 win to tie the count.

The fifth game saw more cramping of muscles and more endless rallies, but while the last drop of sweat hit the court, Fraiberg emerged victorious. The score of the deciding game read 15-12 in the Harvard senior's favor.

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