PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania squash teams swept Columbia on Friday at the Penn Squash Center, the Quakers earning a pair of 9-0 victories over the Lions.
 
The top-ranked Penn men remain unbeaten at 12-0 and are now 2-0 in Ivy League play. The fourth-ranked women also are 2-0 in Ivy play and move to 9-1 overall.
 
The women needed less than two hours to knock off the Lions on Friday, winning six of their nine matches in straight games. The only three who were extended past the minimum were Malak Khafagy at No. 1, Allie Stoddard at No. 5 and Natasha Pensler at No. 9 as all three of them lost Game 3 before closing things out in Game 4.
 
History was made on the men's side as senior Nathan Kueh—playing at No. 5 on the ladder—earned his program-record 60th collegiate win for the Red and Blue with an 11-7, 11-3, 11-3 decision. Kueh is now 10-0 on the season and 60-9 all-time at Penn, surpassing Yash Bhargava as the program's all-time leader in wins.
 
He won in straight games as did all of his teammates with the exception of Marwan Abdesalam who split his first games but eked out 11-8 and 13-11 wins in Games 3 and 4 to earn his 3-1 victory.
 
Women's Results – Penn 9, Columbia 0

1. Malak Khafagy (P) def. Chan Sin Yuk (Col), 3-1 (13-11, 11-6, 5-11, 11-2)
2. Franka Vidovic (P) def. Nourin Khalifa (Col), retired (11-5, 11-7, ret.)
3. Sohaila Ismail (P) def. Eva Salzman (Col), 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-2)
4. Savannah Ingledew (P) def. Amal Izhar (Col), 3-0 (11-4, 11-2, 11-3)
5. Allie Stoddard (P) def. Kaavya Bansal (Col), 3-1 (11-2, 11-8, 11-13, 11-7)
6. Jana Dweek (P) def. Andreea Ghiorghisor (Col), 3-0 (11-9, 11-5, 11-2)
7. Yoshna Singh (P) def. Eugenia Li (Col), 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-1)
8. Hailey Wong (P) def. Sophia Hu (Col), 3-0 (12-10, 11-2, 11-6)
9. Natasha Pensler (P) def. Advita Sharma (Col), 3-1 (11-4, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7)

Men's Results – Penn 9, Columbia 0

1. Salman Khalil (P) def. Arhan Chandra (Col), 3-0 (11-3, 11-6, 11-4)
2. Nick Spizzirri (P) def. Shaurya Bawa (Col), 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-3)
3. Omar Hafez (P) Franklyn Smith (Col), 3-0 (13-11, 11-5, 11-3)
4. Marwan Abdelsalam (P) def. Yusuf Sheikh (Col), 3-1 (11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 13-11)
5. Nathan Kueh (P) def. Zach Nam (Col), 3-0 (11-7, 11-3, 11-3)
6. Dana Santry (P) def. Imad Athar (Col), 3-0 (14-12, 11-2, 11-5)
7. Zane Patel (P) def. Tommy Soltanian (Col), 3-0 (11-2, 11-5, 11-4)
8. Abdelrahman Dweek (P) def. Varun Fuloria (Col), 3-0 (11-2, 11-7, 11-5)
9. Roger Baddour (P) def. Alex Yuzpe (Col), 3-0 (11-5, 11-1, 11-1)

Up Next
Both teams are back home again on Saturday, hosting Cornell at 1 p.m. Please note the change in date and venue, this match was originally set for Sunday in Ithaca but has been moved to Philadelphia and will take place tomorrow. The Big Red women are eighth in this week's CSA national varsity rankings while the men are ninth.

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