ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's squash team got three-game sweeps from the top two positions on Friday, but Princeton won the other seven scoring matches to take home a 7-2 victory in an Ivy League match at Belkin International Squash Courts.

Senior Sivasangari Subramaniam got the Big Red on the board with an efficient 17-minute victory from the #1 position to improve to 9-0 on the season. In a similar vein, sophomore Wen Li Lai cruised to a comfortable three-game victory at #2 to move up to 6-3 in dual matches during her first collegiate season.

Third-ranked Princeton (7-2, 3-1 Ivy League) won the remaining seven scoring matches, each in three games — though freshman Kacey Mollenkopf prevailed in three in the exhibition match. Cornell, which entered the weekend ranked eighth by the College Squash Association, fell to 3-6 overall and 1-4 in Ivy League play. The Big Red has never defeated the Tigers in 29 all-time meetings.

Up next for Cornell is a pivotal showdown with ninth-ranked Penn at noon Sunday in Philadelphia, with the stakes being an inside track to the final berth for the Howe Cup — the CSA's first division of the national championships. The match will be available through subscription-based Ivy League Network, which is powered by Stretch Internet. Live scoring will also be available through the CSA's website, csasquash.com.