Jan. 27, 2007

Results

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The 10th-ranked Navy squash team (12-4) earned a 9-0 victory over 36th-ranked MIT Friday night in the opening round of the Yale Round Robin. The Mids pushed their winning streak to 46-consecutive wins over the Engineers, while Navy is the only team in MIT's 85-year program history the Engineers have never beaten.

Navy head coach Craig Dawson gave Navy's top player, Tucker George (West Hartford, Conn.), the evening off, pushing the ladder up a spot. Sophomore Nils Mattsson (Spring House, Pa.) earned a 9-4, 9-0, 9-3 win over Ashwin Deshpande at the No. 1 spot, giving Mattsson his fifth win of the year as Navy's back-up No. 1 player. Second-year standout Alastair Smith (Hillsborough, N.J.) shut out Andrew Yoon, 9-0, 9-0, 9-0, bumping his season record to 10-5. Junior Jeff Sawin (Haverford, Pa.), ranked No. 75, held Saad Zaheer without a point at No. 4 , while Brian Hamilton (Lake Forest, Ill.) also blanked Wajahat Khan at the No. 8 spot.

Also earning wins for the Midshipmen in three games were Michael Beautyman Jr (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Ben Mantica (Binghamton, N.Y.), Christopher Zipf (Gladwyne, Pa.) and Dan Hellier (Modesto, Calif.), while first-year varsity player Allen Hartley (Charleston, W.Va.) won by default at the No. 9 position.

The Midshipmen return to action Saturday when they face 13th-ranked Bates and No. 45 Yale in the second day of the Yale Round Robin.