ITHACA, N.Y. — The 10th-ranked Cornell men's squash team will conclude its regular-season slate on Wednesday when it travels to face 21st-ranked University of Rochester. Match action from the Lyman Squash Center is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Cornell (4-9, 0-6 Ivy League) will look to snap its eight-match losing streak on Wednesday against the Yellowjackets (6-5, 2-0 Liberty League), who claimed their seventh consecutive Liberty League title on Sunday afternoon with a 6-3 win over St. Lawrence in Canton, N.Y.
In Cornell's last match on Saturday afternoon against No. 4 Yale at the Belkin Squash Courts, the Big Red suffered a 7-2 setback in its Ivy League finale. Sophomore
Youssef Sarhan (No. 2) and freshman
Aly Ezzat (No. 3) both prevailed in thrilling five-game matches.
Sarhan, who has won each of his last two and three of his last four matches, leads Cornell with an 8-4 record. Ezzat, who snapped a seven-match losing streak, overcame a 2-1 deficit against Arav Bhagwati with wins in the fourth and fifth games, 11-5, 12-10, to register his first victory since Nov. 23.
The Big Red enter Wednesday's match against the University of Rochester with a commanding 64-20 lead in the all-time series. Cornell has won each of the last five meetings since the Yellowjackets' last victory, 5-4, in Ithaca on Dec. 4, 2019.
Dhirren Rajarathinam and Thomas Valderrama pace the Yellowjackets in victories, both having identical 8-2 records.