Spectacular squash, from a less than spectacular location
Last weekend, Princeton University, unbeknownst to many of its students, hosted the Intercollegiate Squash Association championships.Big deal?It actually was a big deal.Hosting college squash's version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, albeit with far less teams, gave Princeton the unique privilege to witness firsthand the nation's top college squash players.College squash is one of those few sports here at Princeton, according to the humble opinion of this lowly sports writer, where its players are nearly as good as professional ones; where action is seldom dull; and where a day spent literally holed underground in Jadwin Gym's C-Floor, even on a dreary late Sunday morning, is not wasted.Sunday's top three finals matches were seemingly the three most entertaining matches one might find in all of men's college squash.The first found senior David Yik, who won the national championship in 2001 as a sophomore, playing Trinity's Nickolas Kyme.The catlike Yik came alive in the second game after a slow start, bearing a smile less the result of quirky fan cheers than the fact that Kyme seemed to be gradually losing his shorts on the court as the match unraveled.