The 21st-ranked Navy squash team improved to 9-1 on the year after sweeping its competition over the weekend at its home round robin. The Mids kicked off the Navy Classic on Friday evening with a 9-0 victory over No. 31 Fordham, followed by 7-0 and 9-0 wins against Boston U. and No. 30 Haverford, respectively, on Saturday. They closed out the weekend with a 9-0 shutout against No. 32 Denison on Sunday.
Weekend Highlights
• Navy now owns a combined 110-9 record against Fordham (64-0), Boston (6-0), Haverford (22-0) and Denison (18-9).
• Nine of Navy's 10 players saw action on the weekend with
Millen Randell (Jr / Chicago, Ill.),
Ryan York (Sr / Hunt Valley, Md.),
Matt Wang (Fr / Malvern, Pa.),
Ben Korn (Sr / Stevenson, Md.),
Gus Prager (Sr / New York, N.Y.),
Lucas Spiro (Fr / Buffalo, N.Y.) and
Will Hyer (Sr / Bridgehampton, N.Y.) seeing action in all four matches.
• Among the 36 individual matches played over the weekend, Navy surrendered just a single game - Haverford's Quinton Ayres Crawford won game four (11-7) in a 3-1 loss to Navy's
Millen Randell at the No. 1 position.
• Seniors
Ben Korn and
Ryan York reached the 30-win milestone for their careers over the weekend. Korn, who stands 32-20, claimed his 30th victory on Saturday with an 11-6, 11-2, 11-8 triumph over Boston U.'s Martin Brnak. Meanwhile, York, the Mids' team captain, secured his 30th win in the weekend finale with a sweep over Denison's Lucas Piller, 11-2, 11-0, 11-6.
• Senior
Will Hyer remains undefeated over his career at 11-0.
What's Ahead
• Navy will make the trip to Philadelphia next Saturday to battle top-ranked Penn (3-0) at 9:00 am, followed by a neutral site contest against No. 16 Amherst (0-0) beginning at 3:00 pm.
Navy 9, Fordham 0
1 |
Millen Randell (N) def Henry Frawley (F) // 11-5, 11-1, 11-3
2 |
Ryan York (N) def Jake Bennett (F) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-2
3 |
Matt Wang (N) def Winthrop Reed (F) // 11-4, 11-6, 11-3
4 |
Ben Korn (N) def Justin George (F) // 11-4, 11-2, 11-2
5 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Nicholas Choo (F) // 11-3, 11-3, 11-5
6 |
Gus Prager (N) def Dylan Panichello (F) // 11-2, 11-7, 11-8
7 |
Tommy Rankin (N) def Caleb Schumacher (F) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-2
8 |
Ben Balser (N) def Aarav Jhunjhunwala (F) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-2
9 |
Will Hyer (N) won by default
Navy 7, Boston U. 0
1 |
Millen Randell (N) def Milan Tahliani (B) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-3
2 |
Ryan York (N) def Pablo Rodriguez (B) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-7
3 |
Matt Wang (N) def Stefano Viacava (B) // 11-8, 11-3, 11-7
4 |
Ben Korn (N) def Martin Brnak (B) // 11-6, 11-2, 11-8
5 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Spencer Choice (B) // 11-1, 11-2, 11-1
6 |
Gus Prager (N) def Jason Gao (B) // 11-3, 11-8, 11-3
7 |
Will Hyer (N) def Shanmugesh Raja (B) // 11-4, 11-1, 11-2
Navy 9, Haverford 0
1 |
Millen Randell (N) def Quinton Ayres Crawford (H) // 11-8, 11-3, 7-11, 11-6
2 |
Ryan York (N) def Peter Lehv (H) // 11-5, 11-4, 11-3
3 |
Matt Wang (N) def Noah Tunis (H) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-7
4 |
Ben Korn (N) def Minor Reedich (H) // 11-7, 11-4, 11-2
5 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Benjamin Schiltz (H) // 11-3, 11-5, 11-7
6 |
Gus Prager (N) def Alden Weinberg (H) // 11-8, 11-2, 11-5
7 |
Tommy Rankin (N) def John Collins (H) // 11-9, 11-5, 11-6
8 |
Ben Balser (N) def Garret Fantini (H) // 13-11, 11-4, 11-6
9 |
Will Hyer (N) def Aaron Witkin (H) // 11-2, 11-5, 11-4
Navy 9, Denison 0
1 |
Millen Randell (N) def Abdallah Bekhiet (D) // 11-7, 11-2, 11-5
2 |
Ryan York (N) def Lucas Piller (D) // 11-2, 11-0, 11-6
3 |
Matt Wang (N) def Ibrahim Bekhiet (D) // 12-10, 11-9, 11-5
4 |
Ben Korn (N) def Mario Reifschneider (D) // 11-7, 11-3, 11-2
5 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Joao Victor Gomes (D) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-3
6 |
Gus Prager (N) def Rayan Dar (D) // 11-4, 11-8, 11-3
7 |
Tommy Rankin (N) def Michael Chin Lee (D) // 11-1, 11-4, 11-0
8 |
Ben Balser (N) def Mark Taylor (D) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-3
9 |
Will Hyer (N) def James Maher (D) // 11-1, 11-1, 11-2
### Go Navy ###