It’s hard to believe there are 13 scholastic squash players in New England who are better than Carl Schuck, Rye Country Day’s number one player. But that’s what the final standings of the New England Championships show: Carl Schuck, 14th place.
By Mitch Silver
It’s hard to believe there are 13 scholastic squash players in New England who are better than Carl Schuck, Rye Country Day’s number one player. But that’s what the final standings of the New England Championships show: Carl Schuck, 14th place.
Or, for that matter, that Jack Mattson, Kyle Eagan, and Jared Yanis — the Wildcats’ 2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-ranked players —together would finish behind a total of 41 other competitors in the big year-end tournament held at Deerfield Academy last weekend. But that’s what it says right there in black and white.
Had you been a spectator at Rye Country Day’s last dual match of the season, at home against Loomis-Chaffee ten days ago, you would have expected the Wildcats to come back from Deerfield wearing the laurel wreaths of winners. Head Coach Alex Langerhorst and his assistant Andy Lopez watched his crew dismember the Pelicans 7-0, with every individual matchup a shutout.
Schuck won at number one by 3, 3, and 4. Mattson sat it out, so Eagan defeated his opposite number at two by 5, 2, and 7. Only Yanis at three and Rick Burke at four were even extended in an individual game — Yanis completing his victory at 13-11 and Burke his at 14-12. Hunter Chun, Jack Curry, and Darryl Brickman all played the minimum number of games in their victories.
Still, the 2015-16 season was a real rollercoaster ride. Wins of 7-0 over The King School, Greens Farms, Riverdale, and the Haverford School in the Nationals held in Philadelphia three weeks ago were balanced out by major thumpings at the hands of Hotchkiss and Brunswick…though Brunswick did win the national title.
It was Senior Day against Loomis-Chaffee, and Carl Schuck, Kyle Eagan, and Jared Yanis all received yellow roses for their mothers. A nice way to end their Rye Country Day careers.
