PHILADELPHIA — In its first appearance in the Howe Cup since 2018, the No. 6-ranked Cornell women's squash team fell to No. 3-ranked Princeton, 6-3, on Friday afternoon in the Howe Cup quarterfinals.

Senior Sivasangari Subramaniam, who was unanimously named the Ivy League Player of the Year for a second consecutive year, cruised in her match against Molly Chadwick, claiming a three-game victory, 11-2, 11-8, 11-8.

Junior Wen Li Lai (No. 2) and freshman Aishwarya Khubchandani (No. 3) each recorded four-game victories to give the Big Red wins at the top three positions. Lai defeated Andrea Toth in four games, 11-4, 12-10, 9-11, 11-6, while Khubchandani beat Liyen Teoh, 12-10, 8-11, 14-12, 11-3.

Princeton controlled the remainder of the ladder, claiming victories from the No. 4 spot down. Three of the matches resulted in sweeps, but senior Lily Zelov battled with Charlotte Bell in her match at No. 5, ultimately falling in five sets. Zelov lost the first two games before posting 11-8 and 12-10 victories to force a decisive fifth game, which Bell took by an 11-2 score.

Freshmen Alysa Ali (No. 6) and Devon Shatzman (No. 9) each fell in four games for Cornell.

Looking Ahead

Cornell will now enter the Howe Cup consolation bracket, where it will play No. 7-ranked Columbia in the semifinals at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Columbia fell to No. 2-ranked Harvard, 6-3, in its quarterfinal match on Friday.

Scouting Columbia

Columbia enters Saturday's match with a 4-7 overall record. The Lions finished Ivy League play with a 3-3 mark, defeating Penn, Yale, and Dartmouth. In its three losses, Columbia battled against Princeton, 6-3, and dropped 5-4 decisions to Harvard and Cornell.

In the regular-season meeting against Cornell on Feb. 4, Subramaniam, sophomore Ananya Dabke, and senior Alexis Shatzman registered three-game victories. Fellow senior McKenna Stoltz and Ali also won for the Big Red in the match.

On Friday, Farida Mohamed (No. 1), Chan Sin Yuk (No. 2), and Sarah Cao (No. 5) posted victories for the Lions in its setback to the Crimson. Kiroshanna Manoharan fell in five sets at her match at the No. 6 position.

Of the six victories for Harvard, four came in three-game sweeps.