Penn & Potluck

First off, thanks to Penn for hosting the match and potluck dinner! I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time and even more sure that the food was delicious.

Also, congrats to Penn's men's, women's and mixed teams for coming out on top. At least we put up a good fight!

Noteworthy: Chern and Anna won in an exciting mixed doubles match, Sara White won the handicapped women's bracket, and Yehan defeated his opponent in a crazy intense single's match.

Check out more pics from the potluck at Penn's Gallery.

BEN

Quad-meet with Bryn Mawr, UPenn, and NYU

Hello, friends.

Since the number of courts at Drexel is pitiful, we met at Bryn Mawr College on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 to conduct an IBA quad-meet. Drexel played against New York University's badminton team. They had legitimate jerseys. Serious business.

I don't have the results of our individual matches.
Just know this: Drexel defeated NYU 5-4.

We are the IBA champions of the east coast, supposedly.

Some photos are here. Bui Wonder bogarted my camera and took some of the shots toward the latter half of the day. Pz.

-VK

Another Drexel/UPenn showdown

Drexel Badminton found themselves on Penn grounds again February 21st, 2009.
The reason? Dinner and shenanigans.

DOF was a bit too shallow but you get the idea.

Some of us like spicy food. Some of us like to add hot sauce to our spicy food. And some of us are Devi.

After devastating Koreana and terrifying the hosts/hostesses at Chili's, we raided 7-11 and headed to the Rodin housing building to enter... THE UNDERGROUND. It's not exactly what you think it is.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

We spent the evening pitting our best against each other in ping pong, foosball, and pool. Thank you to An and Devi for planning the whole thing. Penn, we went easy on you this time.

The evidence is here.

Edit: Penn also wrote about the evening. I will do the socially acceptable blaggy thing and cross-post. Cheers.

-VK

Results of IBA Matches against UPenn

One post a week is pretty good, innit? No? Well, I'm trying.

The Drexel Badminton team squared off against UPenn for friendly IBA matches last week. We hosted UPenn's women's team on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at the DAC. Thursday, February 5th, 2009 saw the men's team at Hutchinson Gym on UPenn's campus.

Anna convincingly faked a career-ending leg injury while Yehan, a newly-joined team member fresh from Sri Lanka, dominated his matches with aplomb.

The results:
Drexel vs. UPenn [Women's]: 4-5
Drexel vs. UPenn [Men's]: 5-4
Drexel vs. UPenn [Mixed]: 3-2

Too close for comfort, but Drexel edged out to become the winner of this exciting bout. Well played, all.

Edit: Here's a straight copy/paste job from Mindy Lee of UPenn with the results of each match. If you have any problems with it, I don't wanna hear it. Thanks.

Mixed Team results: Drexel def. Penn 3-2
Men's doubles: Chad/Jason lost to Chern/Yehan 16-21, 16-21
W Doubles: Devi/Mindy def. An/Anna 19-21, 21-19, 21-14
M Singles: Sanket lost to Yehan 13-21, 14-21
W Singles: Devi def. An 21-12, 19-21, 21-12
Jimmy Lin/Devi lost to Chern/An 15-21, 16-21

Men's team results: Drexel def Penn 5-4
Doubles
1 Chad/Jason lost to Chern/Yehan 16-21, 16-21
2 Jimmy Lin/Sanket def. Zdravko/Peter 21-17, 20-22, 21-14
3 Jimmy Ma/Swee def. Vincent/Arthur 18-21, 24-22, 21-15

Singles
1 Sanket lost to Yehan 13-21, 14-21
2 Jimmy Lin lost to Cher 16-21, 9-21
3 Jason T def Zdravko 21-15, 21-13
4 Chad def Peter 21-19, 21-19
5 Swee lost to Vincent 21-11, 17-21, 19-21
6 Jimmy Ma lost to Linh 21-15, 18-21, 16-21

UPenn Women def. Drexel Women 5-4
Doubles
1 Devi/Mindy def. An/Anna 19-21, 21-19, 21-14
2 Yue/Jennifer lost to Xiang/Jackie 5-21, 21-23
3 Angela/Michelle lost to Sara/Yung 21-14, 22-24, 14-21

Singles
1 Devi def An 21-12, 19-21, 21-12
2 Yue lost to Xiang 11-21, 11-21
3 Mindy def Anna 21-9, 21-12
4 Jennifer def Jackie 21-15, 21-14
5 Angela lost to Sara 17-21, 17-21
6 Michelle def Yung 21-11, 21-11

-VK