Nigro and Patrick Earn Canadian College Titles
March 16, 2004 © 2004 by David Cooper, Univ of Toronto

Manitoba Takes Team Title 

Katie Patrick beats Manitoba's Alana Miller photo © 2004 David Cooper

However the women’s Open final was much closer and saw Toronto’s Katie Patrick ranked #6 in Canada beating Manitoba’s Alana Miller, ranked #4 in Canada, 3-2 in a game which saw both players having chances to win the

Western's Rob Nigro tops Andrew Jones in the men's finals, photo © 2004 David Cooper

match. Miller, who was runner up in 2003, fell behind 8-2 in the opening game but fought back to win 10-8 and take the 2nd game comfortably 9-2. At this stage Patrick looked out of the match but managed to regroup and contest the 3rd game. Miller actually served for the match at 9-8 but could not convert and Patrick eventually took the game 10-9. The momentum now swung back to Patrick as she wrapped up the 4th game at 9-4. The match was now well past the hour mark with both players contesting every point with some outstanding retrieving and shot making. In the 5th game the match was evenly balanced at 3-3 until Patrick hit a rich vein of winners and took a 6-3 lead. Miller tried to fight back but Patrick was determined to hang on and win her first Canadian University Squash Championship. The bronze medal was won by Nichole Mailey, a 1st year from Manitoba, over Jenny Hogan from McMaster.

Josh Struthers, Alana Miller and Nicole Mailey won the team title for Manitoba , photo © 2004 David Cooper

The successes of Alana Miller, Josh Struthers and Nichole Mailey won the University of Manitoba the unofficial team title of top Canadian squash school in 2004 by the narrowest of margins from Western. Toronto edged out McMaster for 3rd place.

In the Men’s BCD Combined event Jagbir Julka from the University of Windsor won an exciting 5 game match over Hassan Haroon from Toronto.
Jeff Smithson from Toronto took 3rd place Binaifer Kapadia from Toronto had no such problems in winning the Women’s BCD Combined event with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Soo Chan Carusone from McMaster. Toronto’s Shu Hsien Zhu took 3rd place.

Team Challenge Standings
Based on the combined finishes of the top 3 male and female players in the Open:

1. Manitoba Alana Miller (2), Nichole Mailey (3), Josh Struthers (4) total 8 points
2. Western Rob Nigro (1), Andrew Jones (2), Kim Farah (6) total 9 points
3. Toronto Katie Patrick (1) Nathalie Martinek (8) Dave Ponak (14) total 23 points
4. McMaster Jenny Hogan (4) Kim Milne (5) Justin Mangat (15) total 24 points

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