PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's and women's squash teams split their Ivy League matchups with the Yale Bulldogs Saturday from the Penn Squash Center, with the men winning and women falling by identical 7-2 scores.

Ranked #2 in the College Squash Association (CSA) rankings, the men took the first five matches of the day against the #4 team in the country, rallying from one game down in two of them and taking two more in 3-0 fashion.

Dillon Huang started the men off with a 3-1 win, taking 22 of the match's last 31 points across the final two games. Nathan Kueh took his match at No. 1 in just under an hour, and Dana Santry held on for a five-game, 70-minute win to close out the first flight.

Like Huang, Nick Spizzirri took 22 of the last 31 points in his match to at No. 2 to open the second wave, and Saksham Choudhary clinched the match with a 3-0 win at No. 6.

After Yale picked up a pair of wins to close the second and open the third waves, Omar Hafez and Abdelrahman Dweek closed out the day with a pair of 3-0 wins.

On the women's side, three matches went to five games, with Yale coming out the victors in all three.

The #5 Bulldogs took two of three in the opening wave, with Malak Taha claiming a 3-1 win at No. 1 to keep the #9 Quakers briefly within striking distance, but the Bulldogs swept the second wave to open a 5-1 lead and claim the team win.

Emma Carter, playing for the first time in 2023, picked up a 3-0 win in the final wave for Penn's second point of the day.

The Quakers welcome Trinity to the Penn Squash Center tomorrow at 1 p.m., with the Bantams bringing in the #1 team in the CSA rankings on the women's side and the #6 team on the men's side.
 
Results

Men's

1. Nathan Kueh def. Siow Yee Xian (Y) – 4-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-9
2. Nick Spizzirri def. Maxwell Orr (Y) – 12-10, 11-7, 11-2
3. Max Forster (Y) def. Roger Baddour – 11-8, 11-3, 11-1
4. Omar Hafez def. Tad Carney (Y) – 11-8, 11-4, 11-3
5. Dillon Huang def. Jed Burde (Y) – 8-11, 12-10, 11-5, 11-4
6. Saksham Choudhary def. Nikhil Ismail (Y) – 11-5, 13-11, 11-6
7. Arav Bhagwati (Y) def. Tushar Shahani – 6-11, 11-8 11-7, 11-5
8. Dana Santry def. Brian Leonard (Y) – 13-11, 11-4, 4-11, 4-11, 11-5
9. Abdelrahman Dweek def. Eric Kim (Y) – 11-8, 11-5, 11-5

Order of finish: 5, 1, 8, 2, 6, 7, 3, 4, 9
 
Women's

1. Malak Taha def. Elisabeth Ross (Y) -- 6-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9
2. Sneha Sivakumar (Y) def. Avni Anand – 11-7, 7-11, 11-9, 6-11, 11-7
3. Christy Tan Yan Lau (Y) def. Jana Dweek – 11-5, 11-9, 11-7
4. Brianna Jefferson (Y) def. Ashley Manning – 9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-1
5. Whitney Taylor (Y) def. Natasha Pensler – 11-5, 11-5, 11-7
6. Meghna Sreedhar (Y) def. Eujung Park – 11-3, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5
7. Mika Bardin (Y) def. Grace Lavin – 11-7, 11-6, 11-8
8. Gigi Yeung (Y) def. Penelope Oh – 7-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-5, 12-10
9. Emma Carter def. Nina Mital (Y) – 11-2, 11-9, 11-6

Order of finish: 5, 1, 8, 6, 7, 2, 9, 4, 3