Playing without its #2 player on the ladder due to illness, the 18th-ranked Navy squash team (7-10) suffered an 8-1 loss to #14 Franklin & Marshall (12-4) Wednesday night in Lancaster, Pa.

The Highlights
• The Mids fell behind 8-0 before Jack Lentz (Jr / Philadelphia, Pa.) fought his way to a 3-1 victory over F&M's Aryan Parekh. Lentz dropped the opening game, 13-11, before winning the next three games - 11-8, 11-9, 11-7 - to capture his team-best 10th win of the season.
• Lentz, meanwhile, is now just two wins shy of joining the program's 50-win club (48-21).
•  Team captain Michael Kacergis (Sr / Malvern, Pa.) had his four-match winning streak snapped by the Diplomats' Sanjay Jeeva. Jeeva won game one, 11-7, before Kacergis leveled the match by mirroring Jeeva's opening game, 11-7. Jeeva, however, went on to win the final two games to claim the victory at #2. Jeeva came into the match having played 14 of his 15 matches at #1 for the Diplomats and owned an 11-3 mark as the #1 player.
• At #3, Millen Randell (Fr / Chicago, Ill.) opened with an 11-7 win against Shamseldeen Abbas and jumped out to a lead in the second. Abbas, however, turned a 2-point deficit into a 12-10 victory and propelled him to a 3-1 win over the Navy rookie.
• Thomas Prim (So / New York, N.Y.) made just his fourth career appearance and fell for the first time in his career when he was clipped in three games by Kingman Bassett at #9.
• Senior Owen Davis (Rydal, Pa.), who plays the #2 spot on the ladder for the Mids, was unable to make the trip after being sidelined with the flu.

What's Ahead
• Navy returns to action on Saturday at 2:00 pm when it plays host to #5 Drexel in its final home match of the season. Navy will also honor seniors Michael Kacergis and Owen Davis who will make their final home appearance of their careers.

Franklin & Marshall def. Navy, 8-1
1 | Jack Lentz (N) def Aryan Parekh (F&M) // (3-1) 11-13, 11-8, 11-9, 11-7
2 | Sanjay Jeeva (F&M) def Michael Kacergis (N) // (3-1) 11-7, 7-11, 11-7, 11-5
3 | Shamseldeen Abbas (F&M) def Millen Randell (N) // (3-1) 7-11, 12-10, 11-8, 12-10
4 | Yannis Senkel (F&M) def Ryan York (N) // (3-0) 11-8, 11-5, 11-6
5 | Matthew Dukarm (F&M) def Ben Korn (N) // (3-0) 11-9, 13-11, 11-5
6 | Raunak Advani (F&M) def Tommy Rankin (N) // (3-0) 11-7, 11-3, 11-7
7 | Flavio Hinostroza (F&M) def Gus Prager (N) // (3-0) 11-6, 11-8, 14-12
8 | Teddy Eill (F&M) def Joe Kacergis (N) // (3-0) 11-7, 11-3, 11-5
9 | Kingman Bassett (F&M) def Thomas Prim (N) // (3-0) 11-2, 11-6, 11-4
EXH | Allen Tompkins (F&M) def Will Hyer (N) // (3-0) 11-2, 11-4, 11-3


### Go Navy ###