Zeke Scherl lost in five games today at Rochester (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).

The No. 5 Harvard men's squash team lost its second match in as many days on Sunday. No. 4 Rochester defeated the Crimson, 9-0, dropping Harvard to 3-2 on the season.

Rochester (5-0) is the first team in 2010-11 to sweep the Crimson. Two of Harvard's players, Zeke Scherl and Nigel Koh, did their best to break up the sweep, but succumbed to defeat in five-game matches.

Scherl, competing in the No. 6 spot, won the first game and forced an extremely close fifth after taking the fourth, but fell to Juan Pablo Gavaria, 7-11, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 13-11.

Koh evened his No. 4 spot match against Will Newnham at one and two games apiece before losing the deciding set. Newnham won the match 11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7.

Three Yellowjackets won in three games while the other four matches were all decided by 3-1 scores.

Harvard will next be in action after the New Year when it hosts Trinity on Jan. 26.

Complete Results
No. 4 Rochester 9, No. 5 Harvard 0
No. 1 Benjamin Fischer (R) def. Gary Power (H) 3-1: 11-5, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5
No. 2 Andres Duany (R) def. Richard Hill (H) 3-0: 11-9, 11-1, 11-0
No. 3 Hameed Ahmed (R) def. Brandon McLaughlin (H) 3-1: 11-6, 11-9, 1-11, 11-9
No. 4 Will Newnham (R) def. Nigel Koh (H) 3-2: 11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7
No. 5 Adam Perkiomaki (R) def. J. Reed Endresen (H) 3-1: 11-8, 11-13, 11-6, 11-7
No. 6 Juan Pablo Gaviria (R) def. Zeke Scherl (H) 3-2: 7-11, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 13-11
No. 7 Joe Chapman (R) def. Alexander Ma (H) 3-0: 11-8, 11-4, 11-5
No. 8 Karm Kumar (R) def. Thomas Mullaney (H) 3-0: 11-7, 15-13, 11-7
No. 9 Oscar Lopez Hildalgo (R) def. William Ahmed (H) 3-1: 11-5, 5-11, 12-10, 11-6
No. 10 Edwin Goncharuk (R) def. Quentin Auerbach (H) 3-2: 11-9, 11-9, 8-11, 5-11, 11-6