ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's squash team will continue its busy stretch of six matches in 10 days when it takes to the road this weekend to take on Trinty, George Washington and Franklin & Marshall in Connecticut.
 
Cornell (3-5), which is ranked 10th in the nation by the College Squash Association, is coming off a tough weekend in which it was defeated three times in as many days. Losses to #5 Stanford and #6 Drexel book-ended a down-to-the-wire 5-4 setback against #9 Virginia on Saturday. Sophomore Lily Zelov won in four at No. 2 and freshman Alexis Shatzman came all the way back from two down to win in five at No. 6 to tie the score at 4 – but the Cavaliers would ultimately take the final match. That led to the CSA swapping the teams' national rankings this week.
 
Sophomore Sivasangari Subramaniam continues to pace the Big Red with a perfect 6-0 mark from the #1 position. Freshman Ania LaDow ranks second on the team with a 5-3 record, coming off a strong weekend in which she won an exhibition match against Stanford, went to five games vs. Virginia, then topped her opponent from Drexel at #9 to conclude the trip. Sophomore Lily Zelov, and freshmen McKenna Stoltz, Mia Krishnamurthy and Shatzman have four wins apiece to date.
 
The weekend starts with a 5 p.m. Friday match at Trinity, which is a perfect 9-0 and ranked #2 in the country. The Bantams won each of their first seven matches by a score of 9-0 before finally conceding points last weekend in a 7-2 win over #7 Columbia and 8-1 triumph over #8 Penn. Min Jie Teh, Akanksha Salunkhe and Sarahi Lopez are all undefeated for the top third of the ladder. Cornell has yet to defeat Trinity in 16 all-time matches, including a 9-0 loss last year in Ithaca.
 
Next up is a 2 p.m. Saturday showdown with #14 George Washington at Yale's Brady Squash Center in New Haven. GW (4-8) moved up a spot in the CSA rankings to #14 by way of its upset victory over Middlebury on Jan. 11. The Colonials have since lost three straight to #12 Brown, #13 Williams and #11 Dartmouth. GW has had the most success from the top of its lineup, where Zoe Foo Yuk Han leads the team with a 10-2 at #1 and Engy Elmandouh is 7-5 at #2. The Colonials are 25-54 from the remaining positions. Cornell has never lost in eight all-time meetings with GW.
 
The weekend concludes with another neutral-site match at Brady with Cornell taking on Franklin & Marshall at 11 a.m. Sunday. F&M (6-4) remains 18^th in the rankings after 9-0 losses last weekend against #13 Williams and #15 Middlebury. Zoe Quayle leads the team with a 7-3 record from primarily the #7 position. Emily Knapp is 6-4 from the top third, while Katherine Galambos and Grace Smith sport the same record from the middle of the ladder. The Big Red has won its last 14 matches against F&M, including a 9-0 sweep last year.