CANTON, N.Y. - The Bard College men's squash team broke the school record for victories in a season with an 8-1 victory over Vassar College at the Liberty League Championships on Saturday.

The Raptors have nine wins. They had nine wins in the previous three seasons combined. It was also Bard's first-ever victory at the conference tournament.

The Raptors began the day with a match against top-seeded and third-ranked Rochester, and the Yellow Jackets swept Bard, 9-0.

Against Vassar, freshman Rhys Nordstrom lost in four games at No. 1 to Vassar junior Vincent Mencotti, but Bard won the other eight matches.

Ayateru Maeda (#2), Julian Dime (#4), Abe Etkin (#5), Vikramaditiya Joshi (#6), Asad Hashmi (#7) and Satwik Srikrishnan (#8) swept their matches in three games. Senior Jack Smith prevailed in four games at No. 3, and Francesca Cornali, one of two women on the Bard roster, outlasted Richard Bryenton in five games at No. 9.

At 9-4, this team surpassed the 2009-10 team, which finished 8-12.

The Raptors will play two more matches at the Liberty League Championships on Sunday. They'll face sixth-ranked Hobart at 10 a.m., then Hobart at noon.

#3 Rochester 9, Bard 0

1. Mario Yanez Tapia def. Rhys Nordstrom 11-7, 11-5, retired
2. Ryosei Kobayashi def. Ayateru Maeda 11-3, 11-6, 11-8
3. Neil Cordell def. Jack Smith 11-1, 11-1, 11-0
4. Tomotaka Endo def. Julian Dime, 11-2, 11-0, 11-0
5. Lawrence Kuhn def. Abe Etkin 11-9, 11-1, 11-4
6. Micky Bertocchi def. Vikramaditya Joshi 11-3, 11-4, 11-5
7. Aria Fazelimanesh def. Asad Hashmi 11-2, 11-5, 11-6
8. Ben Pitfield def. Satwik Srikrishnan 11-5, 11-0, 11-4
9. Meng Xioamen def. Francesca Cornali 11-1, 11-3, 11-3
Exh. C. Riedelsheimer def. Olivia Terzian 11-1, 11-3, 11-2

Bard 8, Vassar 1

1. Vincent Mencotti (V) def. Nordstrom 11-6, 1-11, 14-12, 11-7
2. Maeda (B) def. Timothy Veit 11-6, 12-10, 12-10
3. Smith (B) def. Juan Fernandez 11-7, 11-7, 11-13, 14-12
4. Dime (B) def. Ben Kurchin 11-7, 11-9, 11-8
5. Etkin (B) def. Tim Boycott 11-8, 11-8, 11-7
6. Joshi (B) def. Sam Hammer 11-1, 11-3, 11-8
7. Hashmi (B) def. Michael Iselin 11-8, 11-4, 11-6
8. Srikrishnan (B) def. Andrew Patton 11-9, 12-10, 11-4
9. Cornali (B) def. Richard Bryenton 11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 12-10
Exh. Alex Riccio (V) def. Terzian 11-4, 11-5, 11-7