The 25th-ranked Navy squash team opened the 2022-23 season with a strong performance in Charlotte where it captured victories over North Carolina (8-0), Richmond (7-0), Duke (8-1), Davidson (5-0), NC State (5-0). While the Mids remained unbeaten against North Carolina (6-0) and Richmond (3-0), it was the inaugural meeting against Duke, Davidson and NC State.

Weekend Highlights
• All 9 players on the ladder saw action and earned wins for the Mids, including Millen Randell (Sr / Chicago, Ill.),  Henry Sparkman (Jr / Darien, Conn.), Tommy Rankin (Sr / Atlanta, Ga.),  Alexander Orr (Fr / Haverford, Pa.) and Tighe Mullarkey (Fr / Locust Valley, N.Y.) who went 4-0 on the weekend.
• Among the 34 individual matches played over the weekend, Navy surrendered just 4 games.
• Freshmen Alexander Orr and Tighe Mullarkey, along with sophomore Shankar Jambunathan (Aurora, Ill.) earned their first-career victories and all three accomplished it in the Mids' 8-0 sweep against North Carolina in the season opener. Orr swept Levi Mellin (2,4,0) at the No. 6 position, Mullarkey shut out Adam Lee (0,0,0) at No. 7 and Jambunathan, who joined the team this season, dealt Alvin Zhang a 3-0 loss (3,3,1).
• Junior Ben Balser (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and sophomores, Matt Wang (Malvern, Pa.) and Lucas Spiro (Buffalo, N.Y.) also saw success, putting together 3-0 records, while Jambunathan was the only player to see action in all 5 matches where he posted a 4-1 record

What's Ahead
• Navy will travel to Charlottesville, Va. to play fifth-ranked Virginia in a mid-week tilt slated for 5:30 pm on Tuesday.
• The Cavaliers finished the 2021-22 campaign with a 12-8 record and placed eighth in the Potter Cup at the College Squash Association Team Championship.
• Virginia returns Second-Team All-Americans Omar El Torkey and Aly Hussein, both seniors, to the lineup.
• Navy will return home to play host to its annual Veteran's Day Weekend tournament slated for Friday through Sunday and will feature teams from #31 Fordham (Fri / 7:00 pm), Boston University (Sat / 9:00 am), #30 Denison (Sat / 2:30 pm), Bucknell (Sun / 10:00 am) and Georgetown (Sun / 12:00 pm).

Navy 8, North Carolina 0
1 | Millen Randell (N) def Charles Larkin (NC) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-6
2 | Matt Wang (N) def Peter Kapp (NC) // 11-1, 11-3, 11-5
3 | Henry Sparkman (N) def Noah Mills (NC) // 11-3, 11-1, 11-4
4 | Lucas Spiro (N) def Luke Hepler (NC) // 11-1, 11-2, 11-1
5 | Tommy Rankin (N) def Isaak Davis (NC) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-1
6 | Alexander Orr (N) def Levi Mellin (NC) // 11-2, 11-4, 11-0
7 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Adam Lee (NC) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-0
8 | Shankar Jambunathan (N) def Alvin Zhang (NC) // 11-3, 11-3, 11-1

Navy 7, Richmond 0
1 | Millen Randell (N) def William Mongillo (R) // 11-2, 11-3, 11-0
2 | Henry Sparkman (N) def Teddy Manges (R) // 11-5, 11-8, 11-1
3 | Tommy Rankin (N) def Jack McKinnell (R) // 11-0, 11-6, 11-4
4 | Alexander Orr (N) def Kent Peters (R) // 11-1, 11-3, 11-4
5 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Casey Ott (R) // 11-3, 11-2, 11-1
6 | Ben Balser (N) def Hampton Massie (R) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-1
7 | Shankar Jambunathan (N) def Vir Shanmugam (R) // 11-1, 11-4, 11-4

Navy 8, Duke 1
1 | Millen Randell (N) def Grant Williams (D) // 11-4, 11-2, 11-5
2 | Matt Wang (N) def Nolan Gelinas (D) // 11-7, 11-7, 11-3
3 | Henry Sparkman (N) def Jake Wang (D) // 11-5, 11-3, 11-2
4 | Lucas Spiro (N) def Aditya Raj (D) // 11-7, 11-4, 11-5
5 | Tommy Rankin (N) def Ryan Selig (D) // 11-4, 11-9, 11-3
6 | Alexander Orr (N) def Samuel Long (D) // 11-7, 11-0, 11-2
7 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Rocky Adams (D) // 11-0, 11-4, 11-2
8 | Ben Balser (N) def Alec Deakin (D) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-2
9 | Maya Bokhari (D) def Shankar Jambunathan (N) // 11-2, 11-8, 11-1

Navy 5, Davidson 0
1 | Matt Wang (N) def Jackson Warmack (D) // 11-3, 11-2, 11-3
2 | Lucas Spiro (N) def Sasha Behrens (D) // 11-1, 11-2, 11-2
3 | Alexander Orr (N) def Ian Lin (D) // 11-0, 11-1, 11-2
4 | Ben Balser (N) def Peter Rock (D) // 11-2, 11-3, 11-5
5 | Shankar Jambunathan (N) def Sam Van Horn (D) // 11-3, 11-5, 11-6

Navy 5, NC State 0
1 | Millen Randell (N) def Saurav Jain (NCSt) // 11-4, 11-2, 11-1
2 | Henry Sparkman (N) def Thomas Szalwinski (NCSt) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-2
3 | Tommy Rankin (N) def Pathey Shah (NCSt) // 11-0, 11-0, 11-3
4 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Kyle Tanner (NCSt) // 11-0, 11-2, 11-0
5 | Shankar Jambunathan (N) def Juliette Khan (NCSt) // 8-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-8

### Go Navy ###