ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's squash team turns back to Ivy League play for the home stretch of its regular season, starting with home matches against Brown at noon Saturday and Yale at noon Sunday at Belkin International Squash Courts.
 
Cornell (3-8, 0-3 Ivy League) has moved up two spots to 14th in the updated Dunlop College Squash Rankings, thanks largely to victories in recent weeks over Drexel and Navy squads that had higher rankings at the time. The 7-2 victory over the Midshipmen was the Big Red's last outing on Sunday in Annapolis, Maryland.
 
Sophomore Yohann Surti improved his team-leading record to 7-3, moving up to the No. 8 position for the first time. He's now won four straight matches, tying freshman Nicholas Göth Errington for the longest such streak on the team this season. Joining Surti in winning both of their respective matches last weekend against Franklin & Marshall and Navy were seniors Andy Muran (No. 1) and Perry Hanson (No. 3), and freshman Nikhil Arjunan Iyer (Nos. 7 and 8).
 
Brown (4-5, 0-3) has slipped to 20th in the nation after a narrow 5-4 loss to Middlebury on Jan. 19. The Bears then rebounded with a 9-0 victory its last time out, hosting Bowdoin last Saturday. Blake Gilbert-Bono won in five games at No. 6 to improved to 5-1. That's tied for the team lead in victories with Andrew Wei (No. 2), Harrison Boyer (No. 5), Ben Caraballo (No. 8), who are all 5-4.
 
Cornell is 24-10 all-time against Brown after a 17-match winning streak in the series was broken last year with a 5-4 loss to the host Bears. All four of the Big Red's point-getters from the match remain with the squad – Andy Muran, Perry Hanson, Illia Presman and V. Luke Park II.
 
Yale (8-3, 2-1), which opens the weekend against Columbia, rolled to a pair of 9-0 victories on the road last week against George Washington and Virginia. The CSA's national rankings algorithm bumped the Bulldogs up a spot to No. 6 this week. The Big Red is 3-57 all-time against the Bulldogs after a 9-0 loss last year. Cornell last defeated Yale in 2012 during the quarterfinals of the Potter Cup, which eventually powered Cornell to a program-best fourth-place finish in the national rankings.