Cornell University Athletics - Men's Squash Seeks First National Title ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? Coming off its best-ever national finish a year ago and a victory over previously undefeated and top-ranked Princeton two weeks ago, the men's squash team will head into this weekend's Potter Cup chasing the program's first national championship. The Big Red will open against a familiar foe, Yale, after upsetting the host team in the first round of last year's event.
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Cornell (16-3, 5-2 Ivy League) is seeded fifth after a banner season which has yielded the program's highest win total within the league and leaves it just one victory away from tying the single-season mark for wins in a season. The Big Red then began its climb up the national rankings with victories over Rochester on Jan. 23 and Princeton on Feb. 8.
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Cornell's first-round test at 2:30 p.m. Friday will be the same as it was last year, when the Big Red ? then seeded sixth ? toppled the third-seeded Bulldogs, 8-1, to advance to the national semifinals for the first time in program history. This season, fourth-seeded Yale (11-3, 5-2) finished in a tie for third place in the Ivy League with Cornell, despite winning the teams' lone regular-season meeting, 8-1, on Jan. 12 at Belkin International Squash Courts. Yale holds a 50-3 advantage in the all-time series.
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Senior co-captain Nick Sachvie accounted for the Big Red's lone point against the Bulldogs earlier this season with a three-game sweep of Kenneth Chan at the No. 1 spot. Sophomore Aditya Jagtap is Cornell's hottest player, having won nine of his last 10 matches from the No. 2 position. He holds the squad's highest winning percentage (.867) with a 13-2 record.
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Senior co-captain Owen Butler also has 13 victories on the season, trailing sophomore Ryan Todd for the team lead. Sophomore Michael Sunderland, who joined the team via transfer last month, has been 5-2 from the middle of the lineup.
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The winner of Friday's Cornell/Yale match will play at 11:30 a.m. Saturday against the winner of a quarterfinal pitting top-seeded Trinity against eighth-seeded St. Lawrence. The quarterfinal losers will compete noon Saturday in the consolation semifinals.
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In Friday's other quarterfinals, second-seeded Princeton will face seventh-seeded Franklin & Marshall, and third-seeded Harvard will take on sixth-seeded Rochester. Sunday's first-, third-, fifth- and seventh-place matches will be contested at 9 a.m., noon, 12:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m.

Source: http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2013/2/21/MSQUASH_0221133543.aspx

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