This Week
The undefeated Navy squash team (10-0) will play its final two matches before going on hiatus for the winter break this weekend when they travel to Vermont to play No. 20 Middlebury (0-0) on Friday (5:00 pm) and close out the weekend with a Saturday matchup (12:00 pm) at No. 7 Dartmouth (1-0).
The Ladder
1.
Jack Lentz (So, Philadelphia, Pa.), 2.
Owen Davis (Jr, Rydal, Pa.), 3.
Senen Ubina (Sr, Greenwich, Conn.), 4.
Michael Kacergis (Jr, Malvern, Pa.), 5.
Dylan Sweeney (Sr, New York, N.Y.), 6.
Jamie Kjorlien (Greenwich, Conn.), 7.
Ryan York (Fr, Hunt Valley, Md.), 8.
Danny Finnegan (So, Williamstown, Mass.), 9.
Ben Korn (Fr, Stevenson, Md.), 10.
Gus Prager (Fr, New York, N.Y.), 11.
John Kacergis (Sr, Malvern, Pa.), 12.
Will Hyer (Fr, Bridgehampton, N.Y.), 10.
Thomas Prim (Fr, Gladwyne, Pa.)
More on the Mids
• The Midshipmen enter the weekend with a 10-0 record and were rewarded this week by the College Squash Association with a No. 10 ranking. Navy was ranked No. 16 in the preseason rankings, but have amassed a 6-0 record against nationally-ranked foes and defeated two teams ranked ahead of it (Virginia and Western Ontario by 5-4 scores).
• Senior
Dylan Sweeney is the only player to see action in all 10 of Navy's matches this season and owns an 8-2 record.
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Jack Lentz (1),
Michael Kacergis (4) and
Ben Korn (9) sit atop the wins leader board for the Mids with matching 9-0 marks. Lentz has twice been the hero for the Mids, earning the go-ahead wins at the No. 1 position against both Virginia and Western Ontario
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Senen Ubina,
Dylan Sweeney and
Jamie Kjorlien continue to move up among Navy's all-time winningest players. Ubina went 3-0 two weeks ago to become just the 11th player in program history with 70 wins. He stands just outside of the program's all-time top 10 with a 70-27 career record, needing four wins to move into a four-way tie for eighth. Meanwhile, Sweeney is tied for 15th on the wins list, just four shy of adding his name to the 70-win list at 66-25. Finally, Kjorlien boasts a 62-26 mark and is 19th all-time.
• Though just a sophomore,
Jack Lentz is already among the winningest in terms of winning percentage. He stands seventh on the list, winning 77.5 percent (31-9) of the matches he has played.
More on Middlebury
• Friday's match against the Midshipmen marks the opener for Middlebury.
• The Panthers recorded a 9-12 record a year ago and finished 2017-18 ranked 19th nationally.
• Leading the way for Middlebury will be a trio of juniors, including William Cembalest who garnered First-Team All-NESCAC honors a year ago and Jacob Ellen, a Second-Team All-NESCAC selection.
The Series
• The Midshipmen own a 6-2 all-time record against the Panthers, who first met in 2011.
• Seven of the eight previous matches have either been played at Middlebury or a neutral site. The Mids swept Middlebury, 9-0, a year ago in Annapolis.
More on Dartmouth
• Ranked seventh nationally, Dartmouth opened its season on Wednesday with a 7-2 victory over No. 11 Drexel in Philadelphia.
• The Big Green put together a 13-5 record a year ago and placed fifth at the College Squash Association Team Championship.
• While All-American Alvin Heuman, the team's No. 1 player last season, has graduated, Dartmouth returns Carson Spahr and Matt Giegerich who played the No. 2 and 3 spots in 2017-18.
The Series
• Dartmouth owns a 27-20 lead in a series that dates back to 1951.
• Navy won the first 15 matches of the series, but the Big Green have turned the tables and won each of the last 22 matches against the Mids.
• Dartmouth has defeated the Mids, 7-2, in each of the last four meetings.
• The Mids' last win in the series was on Feb. 25, 1995 at the NISRA Championship in Princeton, N.J.
Up Next
• The Midshipmen will be off from collegiate competition until Jan. 16 when they face No. 9 George Washington in Washington D.C.
### Go Navy ###
