Seventeenth-ranked Franklin & Marshall (9-4) dealt the #26 Navy squash team (14-11) an 8-1 setback Wednesday evening at the Mayser Center Squash Courts in Lancaster, Pa. The Diplomats improved to 14-7 all-time in matches against the Mids contested on F&M's home courts, while narrowing Navy's lead in the all-time series to 38-26.
Match Highlights
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Lucas Spiro (So / Buffalo, N.Y.) recorded the Mids' lone win on the evening, sweeping senior Teddy Eill 11-6, 13-11, 11-8 at #4.
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Matt Wang (So / Malvern, Pa.), the Mids' #1 player on the ladder, dropped a heartbreaker to F&M sophomore Petr Nohel. After falling behind 2-0, Wang fought his way back to even with 11-7 and 11-4 victories in the third and fourth games. The second-year player led nearly the entire fifth game before Nohel rallied to beat Wang 11-9 in the fifth
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Tommy Rankin (Sr / Atlanta, Ga.) took game one 12-10 against Noah Katzer at #5, but Katzer came back to win three in a row (11-4, 11-8, 11-9) to earn the 3-1 victory.
• Team captain
Millen Randell (Sr / Chicago, Ill.) fell behind in his match against Kyle Broadhurst 2-0, but won game three 11-7 to force a game four. Broadhurst, however, sealed his team-best 10th win of the year with an 11-3 victory in the fourth against Randell.
What's Ahead
• The Mids return home on Friday to play host to a three-day, three-team round robin. Navy plays host to #13 Western (0-3) on Friday at 4:00 pm, followed by a 3:00 pm match against #11 Chatham (5-3) on Saturday and close out the weekend with a 1:00 pm match against #17 MIT (7-5) on Sunday.
• This weekend also marks the final home matches of the season.
• Navy will honor its three senior members -
Ben Balser,
Millen Randell and
Tommy Rankin - who will make the final home appearances of their careers.
Franklin & Marshall 8, Navy 1
1 | Petr Nohel (FM) defÂ
Matt Wang (N) // 13-11, 11-2, 7-11, 4-11, 11-9
2 | Kyle Broadhurst (FM) def
Millen Randell (N) // 11-9, 12-10, 7-11, 11-3
3 | Marco DiFilippo (FM) def
Henry Sparkman (N) // 11-9, 11-9, 11-3
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Teddy Eill (FM) // 11-6, 13-11, 11-8
5 | Noah Katzer (FM) def
Tommy Rankin (N) // 10-12, 11-4, 11-8, 11-9
6 | Flavio Hinostroza (FM) def
Alexander Orr (N) // 11-4, 11-3, 11-7
7 | Evann Tan (FM) def
Ben Balser (N) // 12-10, 11-3, 11-8
8 | Samuel Freed (FM) def
Shankar Jambunathan (N) // 11-2, 11-5, 11-5
9 | Michael Betkowski (FM) def Default (N) // Default
### Go Navy ###