Philadelphia - The University of Pennsylvania women's squash team will look to bounce back after a tough 6-3 loss to Princeton on Wednesday night as they take their first Ivy League road trip of the season. The Quakers will head to Dartmouth on Saturday to take on the No. 11 Big Green and then will head up to Cambridge to play No. 2 Harvard. Penn is at a defining moment of its season as it is all Ivy from here on out.
Penn's match against Harvard will be available to watch on the Ivy League Network. You can watch the match
HERE.
Previewing Penn
* Despite being 5-4, the Quakers had yet to lose two matches in a row before their back-to-back losses to Trinity and Princeton.
* Penn has been rock solid in their top three this season.
Reeham Salah is undefeated having lost just one game in the her nine matches.
Melissa Alves and
Marie Stephan have also combined for an 8-3 record at the two and three slots.
* Where the Quakers have been inconsistent is in their bottom six due to injuries and lack of experience. Penn is just four wins above .500 at 27-23 in the 4-9 slots this season.
* While the Red and Blue are tied for fifth place in the Ivy League, with all Ivy matches from here on out, there will be plenty of opportunity to make up ground.
* Penn is 31-20 against Dartmouth all-time including an impressive 12-6 on the road.
* Against Harvard, the Quakers trail in the all-time series having gone 6-46 and 2-18 in Cambridge. Penn's last win against the Crimson came in 2014 at Ringe.
Previewing Dartmouth
* The Big Green are losers of five straight which included a 6-3 loss to Drexel last Sunday.
* Dartmouth is 0-3 in the Ivy League this season. Those losses coming to Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard
* Zainab Molani and Rebecca Brownell co-captain a young team. The Big Green have seven underclassmen making up more than half of their roster.
Previewing Harvard
* Harvard is an undefeated 8-0 this season boasting the No. 2 team in the nation. One of those wins was an 8-1 win over Trinity.
* Six of Harvard's eight wins have come by the score of 9-0.
* Headlining this match will be the battle at No. 1 between Harvard's Sabrina Sobhy and
Reeham Salah. The duo are the last two to win Ivy League Player of the Year, Sobhy in 2016 and Salah last season. Sobhy and Salah played in the 2016 Howe Cup final with Sobhy winning 3-2. Salah got revenge last season sweeping 3-0, 12-10, 11-7, 11-1
What's Next
Penn will head into the final weekend of the season next week. They will travel to Cornell before they close out the season at home against Columbia.