USA Handily Defeats Canada In Can- Am Championships  

Routing their Canadian counterparts throughout the weekend and boosted especially by a dominant performance in women’s competition, the USA contingent nearly doubled their opponent’s tally in amassing a 51.5 to 26.5 victory in the inaugural Can-Am tourney, a novel doubles event hosted this time in Boston by the University and Harvard Clubs. The women won 13 of their 16 overall matches on Saturday and Sunday, when the second and third rounds were played after Friday’s one-game “lightning round,” and the Americans also took three of the four Mixed matches contested during the last two rounds.

After holding only a 7-6 advantage after the lightning-round (where each match counted one-half point), the Americans out-scored the Canadians 16-10 in Round Two (with each match counting one full point) and 28.5 – 10.5 in Round Three, where each match counted 1.5 points. The No. 1 men’s Open match, between reigning U. S. National Champions Trevor McGuinness and Canadians Scott Dulmage and Chris Deratnay, was scheduled to be the last match of the weekend, and though the team outcome had long since been settled by then, there was still great anticipation about who would prevail, but the Canadians defaulted since Dulmage had to catch an early-evening train back to Toronto; the No. 2 men’s Open match also was adjusted by time constraints to a best two-out-of-three games, with Rob Whitehouse and Greg Park, semifinalists in last year’s U. S. National Doubles, defeating current Canadian Nationals champs Adrian Griffin and Josh McDonald 15-12, 15-13.

One of Canada’s few highlights occurred when Adriana Dimauro and Marci Sier won in four games over Dana Betts and Emily Lungstrum in the No. 1 women’s Open match, but that was one of the few close matches that wound up landing in Canada’s column; the Americans won seven of the nine five-game matches over the last two rounds, and Dawn Gray and Amy Milanek saved a total of five match-games-against in posting their consecutive five-game women’s Open wins over first Dimauro/Sier and then Cairn Meek and Susan Douglas. USA captain and event Chairman Len Bernheimer teamed with long-time partner Tom Poor to win a pair of airtight, tiebreaker-filled matches in the Men’s 65’s and Joyce Davenport was heroic in sharp-shooting her and partner Margaret Rux’s way through their comeback from 2-1 down to a 15-6 fifth-game women’s 40’s win Sunday afternoon win over Michele Ramsey and Tammie Sangster.

Full match results are available by going to canamsquash.com.

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