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No. 8 Virginia Plays at No. 1 Penn on Friday, No. 3 Princeton Saturday

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 7 Virginia men’s squash (1-2) plays three road matches this weekend against Ivy League schools. The Cavaliers open the trip on Friday, Nov. 19 with a 5 p.m. match at No. 1 Penn (4-0) followed by a Saturday, Nov. 20 contest at No. 3 Princeton (0-0) at 3:30 p.m.. Virginia and No. 9 Cornell (0-0) will play at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Penn Squash Center in a neutral site match

MATCH DETAILS

  • Live scoring will be available through ClubLocker
  • The matches will have live video streams via Stretch Internet (subscription required)
  • All three will be 3-court system [2,3,1/4,5,6/8,7,9]

NOTING VIRGINIA

  • The Cavaliers slipped one place in this week’s College Squash Association varsity team rankings to No. 8
  • The Cavaliers opened the season last Wednesday with a dominant 9-0 win at Navy before falling 6-3 at both No. 8 Yale and No. 6 Columbia
  • Junior Aly Hussein and Omar El Torkey went 3-0 last weekend playing at the top two positions
  • Junior Cullen Little and sophomore Myles McIntyre went 2-1 last week. Both won their match-ups at Navy with Little winning his Columbia match and McIntyre topping his Yale opponent
  • Sophomore Taha Dinana won his collegiate debut at Navy before being edged in two tight five-game battles at Yale and Columbia
  • Penn picked up four sweeps to open its season. The 2019 national runners-up start the season as the top-ranked team in the nation with a lineup that includes two First Team All-Americans in Andrew Douglas and James Flynn and National Finalist Aly Abou El Einen
  • UVA is 0-2 against Penn with the Quakers posting 9-0 wins in 2017 and 2018
  • Princeton opens its season on Saturday against the Cavaliers. The Tigers had a fourth-place finish in the 2019 Potter Cup. UVA won the last meeting between the two teams, a 5-4 home victory in November of 2018
  • Cornell opens its season with a neutral-site match against Bates College on Saturday before taking on UVA on Sunday. Cornell is winless in four meetings with Virginia since the program gained varsity status in 2017

ON THE HORIZON

  • Virginia plays its home opener on Friday, December 3, hosting Dartmouth at 6 p.m. at the McArthur Squash Center. It will be the sixth straight match against an Ivy League opponent
  • Virginia will also host MIT on Saturday, Dec. 4 at 11 a.m. and Franklin and Marshall on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 11 a.m.

 

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