Seniors
Charles Culhane and Nicholas Göth Errington provided key victories in a wave of five-game matches on Saturday, highlighting the Cornell men's squash team's 6-3 victory over Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The effort helped the Big Red split the weekend after a 9-0 loss against Harvard on Sunday in Boston.
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Junior
Veer Chotrani continued his hot start to the season with a three-game sweep at #1 against 11th-ranked Dartmouth (3-6, 0-5 Ivy League), staking seventh-ranked Cornell (3-4, 1-2) to an early lead as the other three scoring matches in the opening rotation exceeded an hour in length. Culhane (#4) and Errington (#6) would prevail to give the Big Red a 3-1 lead.
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Cornell would go on to clinch the match by capturing the first two completed matches of the second wave, courtesy of
Spencer Yager (in four games at #2) and
Rohan Iyer (in three at #9).
Arnaav Sareen swept at #3 to account for the Big Red's final point. It was Cornell's second straight victory against Dartmouth after previously losing seven straight in the series.
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The bottom of the lineup had the team's strongest showing against second-ranked Harvard (9-1, 5-1).
Humza Khan (#8) and
Rohan Iyer (#9) both forced their opponents to five games in their respective matches.
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Cornell concludes the Ivy League portion of its schedule next weekend with matches against Princeton on Friday and Penn on Sunday.