ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's squash team's travels within Ivy League play continue this weekend with matches at 11 a.m. Saturday at Dartmouth and 1 p.m. Sunday at Harvard.
 
Cornell (2-4, 0-2 Ivy League) is ranked eighth in the nation by the College Squash Association, coming off a pair of losses to fourth-ranked Yale (6-3, on Saturday) and second-ranked Trinity (7-2, on Sunday). Senior Sivasangari Saubramaniam swept both matches from the No. 1 position to improve to 6-0 on the year, while sophomore Wen Li Lai won twice from the No. 2 spot. The other point against the Bulldogs came from the No. 4 position, where Serena Georgieva improved to 2-2 on the year.
 
The Big Red still maintains a coveted position inside the nation's top eight, which would land it a berth in the Howe Cup – the top flight of the CSA's National Championships – if it holds by the end of the regular season in about a month.
 
Dartmouth is one of the teams chasing Cornell's standing inside the top eight, currently ranked 12th and sitting at 3-4 overall and 0-3 in Ivy play. The Big Green was swept, 9-0, by third-ranked Princeton on Sunday and fell to ninth-ranked Penn, 6-3, on Sunday.
 
Cornell's all-time record in the series against Dartmouth stands even at 15-15, after the Big Green earned a narrow 5-4 victory in a visit to Ithaca on Feb. 1, 2020. The series has been back-and-forth in recent years, including a split of 2018-19 matches that included the Big Red's 6-3 victory in the Hoehn Cup final.
 
Top-ranked Harvard is 5-0 overall and 4-0 against Ivy competition entering a Tuesday afternoon match against seventh-ranked Drexel. The Crimson has now won a CSA-record 88 consecutive matches dating back to the 2014-15 season – but that streak was in serious jeopardy on Saturday when it eked by Princeton, 5-4, on the strength of wins from the top five positions. Harvard then beat Penn, 8-1. Cornell has never defeated Harvard in 27 all-time meetings between the programs.