March 5, 2008

Final Stats

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy tennis team recorded a 7-0 victory over Delaware Wednesday afternoon at the Tose Family Tennis Center to snap a three-match losing streak for the Midshipmen. Navy improved to 10-5 on the season, while Delaware fell to 1-2 on the year with the loss.

"We knew coming in that this would be a competitive match, but we really played well right from the start," said Navy head coach John Officer. "Our doubles teams played very well today, as they have all season."

Navy swept the three doubles matches to pick up the available doubles point of the day. Perhaps Navy's top performance in the doubles portion of the dual came at the No. 1 flight as Nate Nelms (Jr., St. Mary's, Ga.) and Johnny Waters (Jr., Papillion, Neb.) posted an 8-3 victory over Delaware's tandem of Nolan Greenberg and Austin Longacre.

Nelms continued his strong play at No. 1 singles as he recorded a 6-0, 6-3 win over Longacre.

"Nate played well all day," said Officer. "He had lost to Longacre in singles last year, but he played very well in picking up the win today."

The first singles match off of the courts came at No. 5 where Alex James (Sr., Visalia, Calif.) posted a 6-1, 6-2 win over Camilo Perez.

"Alex winning so quickly was huge for us," said Officer.

The second singles match to finish was at No. 2 where Waters won a 6-1, 6-1 decision over Greenberg to give Navy a 3-0 lead in the team scoring.

"Johnny executed really well today," said Officer.

After Nelms completed his match to secure the fourth point and the overall team victory for Navy, Jason Hill (Jr., Marietta, Ga.) tallied a 6-3, 6-1 decision over Sam Barrer at No. 3 singles. His match was followed by Ramsey Lemaich (So., Danville, Calif.) recording a 6-2, 7-5 win over Chris Hincker, with Owen Bullard (Fr., Concord, N.C.) ending the day with a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-2) win at No. 6 singles over Jonathan Schwartz.

Navy's three most recent losses have come to the hands of Yale, No. 42 Clemson and No. 30 North Carolina State.

"We were better today because of the competition we faced last week, especially Clemson and N.C. State." said Officer.

Navy will now head to Florida for a trio of matches over spring break. The Mids will face both Appalachian State and North Carolina on March 12 in Jacksonville, then will play at Bethune-Cookman on March 13.

Navy (10-5) def. Delaware (1-2), 7-0
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (match finish order: 2-3-1)
1 - Nelms / Waters (N) def. Greenberg / Longacre, 8-3
2 - James / Lemaich (N) def. Andrew Blumberg / Schwartz, 8-4
3 - Nick Birger / Hill (N) def. Barrer / Perez, 8-4
Singles (match finish order: 5-2-1-3-4-6)
1 - Nate Nelms (N) def. Austin Longacre, 6-0, 6-3
2 - Johnny Waters (N) def. Nolan Greenberg, 6-1, 6-1
3 - Jason Hill (N) def. Sam Barrer, 6-3, 6-1
4 - Ramsey Lemaich (N) def. Chris Hincker, 6-2, 7-5
5 - Alex James (N) def. Camilo Perez, 6-1, 6-2
6 - Owen Bullard (N) def. Jonathan Schwartz, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-2)