ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's squash team hits the road to start its penultimate weekend of the regular season, traveling to Princeton for a 1:30 p.m. Friday match before returning to Belkin International Squash Courts to take on Penn at noon Sunday.
Friday's match against Princeton will be broadcast on ESPN3.
Cornell (5-7, 1-3 Ivy League) slipped one spot to 13th in the College Squash Association's national rankings after a 6-3 loss last weekend against #9 Dartmouth at Belkin. Freshman
Veer Chotrani and sophomore Nicholas Göth Errington each won their respective matches, improving to matching team-best marks of 8-4. Sophomore
Charles Culhane, who competes exclusively at the No. 2 position, accounted for the Big Red's third point.
Princeton (8-2, 3-2) remains fourth in the national rankings after winning its first home Ivy matches of the season last weekend. Five of the nine matches on Saturday against Yale went to five games, but the Tigers ultimately eked out a 5-4 victory before cruising to a 9-0 triumph over Brown a day later. Howe Cheng has a team-best 8-2 record from down in the ladder, while Youssef Ibrahim – a first-team All-America selection as a freshman last year – is 7-2 from the No. 1 spot.
Cornell is 5-51 all-time against Princeton, but it made the Tigers sweat in a match last year at Belkin. The teams were tied at 4 heading into the last match when Adhitya Raghavan won in three games at the No. 1 position to clinch for Princeton. All four of the Big Red's victories came from competitors who are back on this year's squash – Culhane (No. 2), Göth Errington (No. 6),
Nikhil Arjunan Iyer (No. 8) and
Jared Scherl (No. 9).
Penn (10-2, 4-1) is ranked third after a pair of 9-0 sweeps against visiting Brown and Yale last weekend. The Quakers have gotten fairly consistent contributions up and down their ladder, also sporting a perfect 12-0 mark from the No. 7 position. Nine of those have come from Saksham Choudhary, who is a perfect 12-0 on the season. Andrew Douglas is 8-3 from No. 1, and Aly Abou Eleinen and James Flynn are both 10-2 to fill out the top third.
Penn is 42-21 all-time against Cornell, including a 9-0 victory over the Big Red last year in Philadelphia.
Friday's broadcast of the match at Princeton will feature five different video feeds on ESPN3. The lineup is as follows:
