No. 8 Virginia Plays Three Weekend Home Matches
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 8 Virginia men’s squash (2-4, 1-0 MASC) hosts three matches this weekend at the McArthur Squash Center beginning with a match against No. 11 Dartmouth (0-1) on Friday, Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. Virginia will then play a pair of conference matches, taking on No. 13 MIT (4-3, 0-0 MASC) on Saturday, Dec. 4 at noon and Franklin & Marshall (1-4, 1-0 MASC) on Sunday at 11 a.m.
All matches are free and open to the public.
MATCH DETAILS
- Live scoring will be available through ClubLocker
- Live streams will be available for courts G1, G2, 4, 9 and 11
- Dartmouth and Franklin & Marshall will be 5-Court System; MIT will be a 3-Court System
- The Virginia women’s team will be playing concurrently on Friday and Saturday
NOTING VIRGINIA
- The Cavaliers remained at No. 8 in this week’s College Squash Association rankings
- Friday’s match against Dartmouth is UVA’s sixth straight against an Ivy League opponent
- UVA had last week off after playing three matches the previous week, falling 8-1 at No. 1 Penn, being edged 5-4 at Princeton before topping Cornell 5-4
- Penn is 71-1 in individual matches this season. Myles McIntyre is the only player to win a match against a Quaker this season. He pulled out a five-game victory at the 6 position against Yash Bhargava
- Aly Hussein picked up the highest-ranked victory of his career last week at Princeton, topping World No. 17 Youssef Ibrahim in five games
- McIntyre, Hussein and Omar El Torkey are all 5-1 to start the year
- Dartmouth has only played one match this season, being swept 9-0 at No. 2 Harvard
- This will be the first-ever meeting between the Cavaliers and the Big Green
- MIT Has 9-0 sweeps against BU, BC and Northeastern, but has been swept by Harvard and Trinity. They will play Navy on Friday night in their MASC opener before facing the Cavaliers on Saturday afternoon
- Virginia is 3-0 against the Engineers including a 9-0 sweep in 2020
- Franklin & Marshall’s lone win this season was a 5-4 victory against MASC foe Dickinson to open the season
- Virginia is 6-0 all-time against the Diplomats
ON THE HORIZON
- Virginia will take a break for final exams and the holidays before returning to action on Sunday, Jan. 9 by hosting Harvard