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Illia Presman competes for Cornell men's squash team in its season-opening match against Western Ontario on Nov. 15, 2019 at Belkin International Squash Courts in Ithaca, N.Y. (Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics)
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#14 Men's Squash Resumes Season With Trip to #6 Yale, #16 Brown

1/7/2020 2:00:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's squash team returns to action after a five-week break for final exams and the holidays, hitting the road for the first time to play a pair of Ivy League matches this weekend in New England. Cornell starts off at noon Saturday against Yale, then heads over to Brown for a match starting at 11 a.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell (2-3, 0-1 Ivy League) is coming off a 7-2 loss to Columbia in its league opener to close the first semester. That result came on the heels of an upset bid against Rochester on Dec. 4, though the Yellowjackets ultimately survived by eking out a 5-4 victory. The Big Red's two victories came on Nov. 17 against St. Lawrence and Hobart, two days after the team opened its season with a loss to Western Ontario.
 
The results leave the Big Red 14th in the College Squash Association national rankings. Freshman Veer Chotrani has enjoyed a successful start to his collegiate debut, posting a 4-1 mark while competing exclusively at the No. 1 position. That ties him for the best individual record on the team with sophomores Nicholas Göth Errington and Alex Dworetzky, while sophomore Charles Culhane is 3-2 from the No. 2 spot.
 
Yale (3-1, 1-0) has slipped down to a #6 ranking after a 6-3 loss to Drexel in its last match on Dec. 7. That result followed three straight 9-0 victories against Williams, Virginia and Brown to start the season. Harrison Gill, Calvin McCafferty and Jed Burde are all 4-0 individually after accounting for the points in the match against the Dragons.
 
The Big Red is 3-58 all-time against the Bulldogs after a 7-2 loss last year. Culhane (No. 2) and senior Jared Scherl (No. 9) accounted for the two Cornell points. The Big Red 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.
 
Brown (1-1, 0-1) moved up two spots to 16th nationally after a 6-3 victory over MIT on Dec. 7. That aligns the Bears with the final berth for the Hoehn Cup, which is the 'B' Flight of the CSA's National Championships in February.
 
Cornell is 25-10 all-time against Brown after surging to a 7-2 victory last year at Belkin. The Big Red's last visit to Brown resulted in a 5-4 loss in 2018, which broke a Cornell 17-match winning streak in the series.
 
Saturday's match at Yale will be broadcast on ESPN3, a separate link available for each of the six courts in use at Brady Squash Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
 
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