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Squash Prepares For Showdown With Trinity

1/24/2013 2:43:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's and women's squash teams will host a big non-league match this weekend when highly ranked Trinity visits Belkin International Squash Courts at 11 a.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell's women's team is coming off a clean sweep at the Yale Round Robin, where it didn't surrender a single point in matches against Middlebury, Bates and George Washington. Freshman Abbey Foster is not only a perfect 9-0 on the season, but she has yet to drop a game in any of her matches in the top half of the lineup. Junior Jessenia Pacheco is also undefeated, having played five of her seven matches in the No. 2 spot behind incumbent No. 1, sophomore Danielle Letourneau. Foster shares the team lead in victories with senior co-captain Maggie Remsen, who is 9-1 on the campaign.
 
The sixth-ranked Big Red (9-1) is 0-9 all-time against the Bantams. The last three clashes between the squads have results in 8-1 victories for Trinity, including last season's meeting on Jan. 13, 2012 in Connecticut. Senior co-captain Jaime Laird had Cornell's lone point with a come-from-behind five-game triumph over Alicia Rodriguez Acosta at the No. 3 spot. The Bantams (10-1) are currently ranked fifth in the country, but would stand to move up in the rankings with a win over the Big Red by way of a 5-4 upset of No. 3 Yale on Wednesday. Trinity started the season ranked fourth, but fell a spot after a loss to then-fifth Penn.
 
Meanwhile, the Cornell (11-1) men are coming off a 6-3 victory fifth-ranked Rochester that will likely improve its national standing. A win over second-ranked Trinity on Sunday would bolster that cause and serve as the program's first victory over the Bantams since Feb. 9, 1991. Trinity — which had a streak of 13 straight national titles halted last year — holds a 21-4 advantage in the all-time series, including a 7-2 victory last January. Junior Bryan Keating had one of the Big Red's point in that match with a four-game win from the No. 9 spot.
 
Sophomore Ryan Todd now leads the Big Red with 11 victories, one ahead of freshman Graham Dietz and two ahead of Owen Butler and Abhijit Malik. Senior No. 1 Nick Sachvie is coming off an impressive four-game victory over Rochester's Andres Duany, who was ranked sixth in the nation individually at the end of last season. Sophomore Aditya Jagtap is 8-1, primarily competing from the No. 2 spot.
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