It appears as if the kryptonite of the nearly unbeatable Trinity College men's squash team has been found, in the form of the Rochester Yellowjackets.  The 5th-ranked University of Rochester defeated Trinity College by a 6-3 score on Tuesday evening at the Lyman Squash Center in a battle of two of the perennial top teams in collegiate squash.
 
The loss snaps Trinity's 35-match overall win streak, as the Bantams (6-1), are the two-time defending national champions.  Trinity's last three overall losses as a program all have come against Rochester, coming in the regular season of the 2016-17 season and in the CSA Tournament in the 2015-16 campaign.
 
Rochester (6-1) meanwhile, winners of four straight matches this season, now has won three straight against the Bantams at the Lyman Center and has won four of the last six meetings overall with the 17-time national champions.
 
First-year Cesar Segundo won the clinching point in a back-and-forth 5-game match at the #7 position against Andrew Lee.  After winning the opening game 12-10, Lee answered with 15-13 and 11-9 wins to edge ahead 2-1.  Segundo rallied for an 11-8 win in the fourth and snuck out a 12-10 win in the fifth, sending the Rochester faithful home happy.
 
Setting up the game-winning point, Ashley Davies impressed at #1, winning a 3-0 decision over Kush Kumar by an 11-4, 11-6 and 11-6 score.  Davies' teammate, Ricardo Lopez, also was a 3-0 winner at #2, topping Tom DeMulder 11-9, 11-8 and 11-8.  That three-match stretch, all wins for UR, of positions two, one and seven proved to be the deciding points in the overall contest.
 

Trinity was able to get on the board first, earning a 3-0 sweep from Nku Patrick at #9 over Rochester newcomer Sergio Martin.  Patrick won 11-3, 11-6 and 11-4 to earn the Batams opening point.
 
The Yellowjackets evened the score following Marcus Sim's 3-1 win at #6 over Aryaman Adik.  Sim won the opening set 11-6, but trailed in game two 8-1 before scoring 10 straight points for an 11-8 win.  After Adik earned and 11-7 win in game three, Sim finished him off with another 11-8 win to secure the point.
 
The third match of the opening wave was the first of four five-set matches on the day.  UR's Matthew Toth and Trinity's Thoboki Moholo battled, with each trading the first four sets.  In the fifth, Toth looked poised to take the match, holding a 7-2 lead, but Moholo rallied to even the score at 7-all.  He then earned two stroke points to seize momentum and earned the 11-9 victory for a key second point of the day for Trinity.
 
To open the second wave, Rochester's Rodrigo Porras remained unbeaten on the season, moving to 7-0, following his four-game win over William Curtis at the #8 spot.  Porras bounced back after dropping the first set 11-6, winning the next three 11-7, 11-5 and 11-8 to earn the point and even the overall match score at 2-2.
 
Another five-game match went in favor of Trinity at #5, giving the Bantams a 3-2 lead overall.  Aly Tolba won over Thijs Van Der Pluijm 11-13, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11 and 11-7.
 
Lopez and Davies then earned their wins at the top two spots to pull the Yellowjackets in front and Segundo then earned the clincher.  The final match of the day, another five-set affair between UR's Lawrence Kuhn and the Bantams' Ziad Sakr, went in favor of the Rochester senior by a 12-10, 5-11, 11-4, 5-11, 12-10 score.
 
Trinity was able to earn a 3-0 win in the #10 exhibition match with Patrick O'Sullivan topping Alex Riedelsheimer 11-9, 11-9 and 11-9.
 
Rochester returns to action this weekend with two more big matches against top-8 teams.  The Yellowjackets are looking to keep their winning streak going playing on the road at #3 Columbia on Saturday and at #7 Yale on Sunday.  Both matches are slated for noon starts.