POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Bard College men's squash team extended its season-opening winning streak to seven on Sunday morning, then lost their first match of the 2016-17 season on Sunday afternoon.

Bard beat Vassar, 7-2, then lost to Tufts, 8-1.

Sophomore Aman Kurien, a sophomore, was the only Bard player to win two matches on Sunday. He swept his Vassar opponent at No. 8 in three games, then rallied from a 2-1 defiicit to beat his Tufts opponent at No. 8 in five games.

Up next for Bard is a home match against NYU on Sunday morning.
 

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Bard 7, Vassar 2

1. Vincent Mencotti (V) def. Rhys Nordstrom 9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-4
2. Viraj Nadkarni (V) def. Ayateru Maeda 11-5, 11-5, 6-11, 8-11, 11-8
3. Julian Dime (B) def. Ankit Khosla 11-3, 11-6, 11-4
4. Pranjal Ghate (B) def. Sam Hammer 11-7, 12-10, 11-2
5. Abe Etkin (B) def. Richard Bryenton 11-4, 11-2, 11-7
6. Vikramaditya Joshi (B) def. Caden Gruber 11-3, 11-1, 11-4
7. Satwik Srikrishnan (B) def. Alex Riccio 5-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5
8. Aman Kurien (B) def. Isaac Stuart 11-7, 11-7, 11-5
9. Theo Webb (B) def. Lucas Fifer 11-6, 11-4, 4-11, 8-11, 11-8
10 (exh.). Simon DeBevoise (B) def. Albert Li 11-4, 11-2, 11-4
11 (exh.). Marko Jukic (B) def. Albert Li 11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9.

Tufts 8, Bard 1

1. Alan Litman (T) def. Nordstrom 11-4, 9-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-2
2. Raghav Kumar (T) def. Maeda 7-11, 11-3, 14-12, 11-9
3. Braden Chiulli (T) def. Dime 11-7, 11-8, 11-3
4. Aidan Porges (T) def. Ghate 11-7, 13-11, 11-5
5. Frank Yankdrisevits (T) def. Etkin 11-3, 11-2, 11-9
6. Amun Sahrawat (T) def. Joshi 6-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-2, 11-5
7. Matt Memmo (T) def. Srikrishnan 15-13, 11-8, 12-10
8. Kurien (B) def. John Patrick 7-11, 11-5, 9-11, 11-4, 11-7
9. Siddharth Jejurikar (T) def. Webb 11-4, 11-7, 8-11, 11-4
10 (exh.). Connor Wind (T) def. DeBevoise 11-4, 11-1, 11-3
11 (exh.). Imran Trehan (T) def. Jukic 11-1, 11-2, 11-7