{"id":120088,"date":"2026-02-21T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:51:09","slug":"mens-squash-advances-to-ivy-league-tournament-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120088\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Squash Advances to Ivy League Tournament Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PRINCETON, N.J. \u2014 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s squash team advanced to the Ivy League Tournament final after defeating No. 4 Yale on Saturday, 6-3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Quakers were led by First Team All-Ivy selections <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/salman-khalil\/25283\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25283\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khalil<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/omar-hafez\/25282\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25282\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Hafez<\/a> who won in the first and second positions in the lineup.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSecond Team All-Ivy member <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/alex-dartnell\/25302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25302\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Dartnell<\/a> gutted out a 3-2 win in his first postseason match with the Quakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFinally, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/zane-patel\/25286\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25286\" target=\"_blank\">Zane Patel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/varun-chitturi\/25280\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25280\" target=\"_blank\">Varun Chitturi<\/a> swept their opponents in three games as Penn advanced to tomorrow&#8217;s final.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMen&#8217;s Results vs. Yale:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/omar-hafez\/25282\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25282\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Hafez<\/a> (P) def. Tad Carney (Y) &#8211; 3-2 (11-8, 11-7, 14-16, 6-11, 11-4)&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/salman-khalil\/25283\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25283\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khalil<\/a> (P) def. Lachlan Sutton (Y) &#8211; 3-0 (11-9, 11-3, 11-9)&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/marwan-abdelsalam\/25279\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25279\" target=\"_blank\">Marwan Abdelsalam<\/a> (P) def. Arav Bhagwati (Y) &#8211; DF&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/alex-dartnell\/25302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25302\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Dartnell<\/a> (P) def. Rohan Gondi (Y) &#8211; 3-2 (11-6, 11-5, 8-11, 8-11, 11-8)&#13;<br \/>\n\tRishi Srivastava (Y) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/rustin-wiser\/25289\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25289\" target=\"_blank\">Rustin Wiser<\/a> (P) &#8211; 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-4)&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/zane-patel\/25286\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25286\" target=\"_blank\">Zane Patel<\/a> (P) def. Rick Chen (Y) &#8211; 3-0 (11-8, 11-3, 11-6)&#13;<br \/>\n\tOliver Velasco (Y) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/rehan-luthra\/25284\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25284\" target=\"_blank\">Rehan Luthra<\/a> (P) &#8211; 3-0 (11-7, 11-4, 13-11)&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/varun-chitturi\/25280\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25280\" target=\"_blank\">Varun Chitturi<\/a> (P) def. Bennett Eun (Y) &#8211; 3-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-8)&#13;<br \/>\n\tJack O&#8217;Flynn (Y) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/hao-cui\/25281\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25281\" target=\"_blank\">Hao Cui<\/a> (P) &#8211; 3-2 (11-9, 9-11, 11-9, 10-12, 11-7)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>\nPenn will take on No. 2 Harvard tomorrow at 10 a.m. with an opportunity to be crowned Ivy League Tournament champions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PRINCETON, N.J. \u2014 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s squash team advanced to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-120088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}