NEW YORK — The top of the lineup led No. 6 Columbia to a victory over No. 4 Yale, 6-3, Sunday afternoon at the SL Green StreetSquash Center.
 
Sophomore Farida Mohamed, first-year Simmi Chan and senior Habiba Mohamed played in the top three matches, all on the same court, and were all victorious. Farida Mohamed swept Yale's Sneha Sivakumar in the No. 1 match to give the Lions their first team point. Later on, her sister, Habiba, defeated Yale's Christy Tin Yan Lau, 11-4, 13-11, 11-7, to level the team score at 2-2. Chan was then presented with an opportunity to clinch the match and came through, downing Elizabeth Ross in three games, 11-4, 11-6, 11-6.
 
"Yesterday we had a very tough match … and we took that as a push and believed in ourselves. The whole team today played really well," said Farida Mohamed, who is undefeated in collegiate dual action this season at 5-0, including a 3-0 record when competing at No. 1. "We take every single match very seriously. We have a goal we need to achieve and in order to achieve it we have to get on court for every single match and perform really well. We're on the right track."
 
The Mohamed sisters improved to a combined 11-0 in dual matches this season.
 
Columbia grabbed the momentum thanks to a win at the No. 5 by junior Erica McGillicuddy. The Toronto native won her first two games against Meghna Sreedhar but dropped game three. With the match tied 2-2, McGillicuddy and Sreedhar battled through a roller coaster of a fourth game to try and give their respective team the lead, but it was McGillicuddy who pulled it out, 15-13, as Columbia went ahead in the match.

HUGE WIN at #5 by Erica McGillicuddy 11-7, 11-9, 6-11, 15-13 to put the women ahead 3-2!

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Elizabeth Lentz doubled Columbia's lead with a four-game victory at the No. 9, which set up Chan with the clincher. Once the match was in hand, sophomore Renee Chan added to the victory with Columbia's sixth point by defeating Lindsay Westerfield in three games.
 
Columbia hits the road next weekend for a pair of Ivy matches at No. 1 Harvard (5-0) and No. 12 Dartmouth (3-4). The weekend begins Saturday in Cambridge at 12 p.m. ET.

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