The 16th-ranked Middlebury women's squash team erased a 4-0 deficit to earn a 5-4 victory over 14th-ranked Georgetown on Friday evening from the Bostwick Family Squash Center.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The Hoyas posted sweeps in three of the first four matches in the ninth, fifth and seventh slots, respectively, for a 3-0 lead.
• Aanvi Anand and Sanah Syed went back-and-forth at the #2 position, needing a decisive fifth to decide the match. Syed closed the battle with an 11-6 triumph to put the visitors on the doorstep of clinching.
• Sabrina Schwarz started the Panther turnaround by claiming a four-game triumph over Mary Kacergis in the fourth spot (8-11, 11-5, 11-3, 11-9).
• Lindsey Burnham and Lillian Showalter continued the Middlebury trend with consecutive 3-1 wins at #1 and #6 to trim Georgetown's lead to 4-3.
• A marathon match followed between Caroline Didden and Sydney Bramen in the eighth spot, as both players split the first four games. Didden stayed the course and secured an 11-8 victory in the fifth to set up a winner-take-all battle in the fourth slot.
• With the momentum on her side, Izzy Ronda sealed the team's first win in the new year, rallying from an 11-8 defeat in the opening game with 11-5, 11-3 and 11-9 decisions to beat  Ella Schoonmaker.

NOTES

• The teams battled for the sixth time, with the Panthers holding a slight 4-2 advantage in the series. Friday's match marks the closest result in the series history.

Middlebury continues its three-match home weekend against Franklin & Marshall on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.