ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Navy senior Senen Ubina (Greenwich, Conn.) etched his name in the record books recently when he paired up with teammate Michael Kacergis (Jr, Malvern, Pa.) to win the 2018 Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championship. Ubina, who laid claim to his third Intercollegiate Squash Doubles crown, and Kacergis defeated Navy teammates Jamie Kjorlien (Sr, Greenwich, Conn.) and Jack Lentz (So, Philadelphia, Pa.) in a five-game thriller.

Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia played host to the 21-team tournament which was represented by 10 universities (Connecticut College, Cornell, Fordham, Franklin & Marshall, George Washington, Hobart, Navy, Penn, Rochester and Yale) vying for the annual title which has been dominated by Navy in recent years.

Navy has sent at least one team to compete in each of the last eight Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships and a Navy team has played in the finals of each of the last seven doubles national championships.  Navy has now won four straight Intercollegiate Doubles Championships (2015 - Bill Kacergis & Senen Ubina, 2016 - Randy Beck & Jack Herold, 2017 Jack Herold and Senen Ubina, 2018 Michael Kacergis & Senen Ubina) and five of the last six (2013 - Andrew McGuinness & Hunter Beck).  

This year's championship was set up when Ubina and Kacergis earned an opening-round victory by way of default before the pair went on to sweep Yale's Jay Losty and Tiber Worth (15-5, 15-10, 15-4) and Cornell's Charles Culhane and Andrew Muran (15-7, 15-14, 15-3).

Meanwhile, Lentz and Kjorlien earned their second straight Intercollegiate Squash Doubles championship match appearance by way of victories over Yale's Jonathan Kovac and Nadav Raziel (15-11, 15-8, 15-5), Penn's Yash Bhargava and Mike Mehl (Default) and Rochester's Ashley Davies and Ricardo Lopez (15-9, 15-14, 15-14).

Ubina and Kacergis opened up a 2-0 advantage in what looked as though it would be a rout.  However, Kjorlien and Lentz rallied to win game three, 15-13, and then leveled the match with a 15-14 game-four victory.  Ubina and Kacergis, however, proved to be the better team as the pair scored a 15-6 win in game five to win the 39th annual Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championship.

Remarkably, Ubina has won his three Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships with three different partners, while competing in the championship all four years and that's right, with a fourth different teammate. Ubina won the 2015 crown with Michael Kacergis' older brother, Bill, and in 2017 Ubina teamed up with Jack Herold to take the title. In 2016, Ubina and Kjorlien bowed out in the semifinals.

Ubina and his older sister, Maria Elena, a graduate of Princeton, have become somewhat of squash royalty. Between the two siblings, they have won eight intercollegiate titles - Senen with three men's titles, Maria Elena with three women's and two mixed titles - more than any other family in squash history.

The Midshipmen open the 2018-19 season in just under two weeks when they travel to California to battle Stanford (Nov. 3) and Cal (Nov. 3).

### Go Navy ###