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Fast Start Helps Propel Navy Squash to Win over League Foe Dickinson

The 25th-ranked Navy squash team (6-1) pushed its winning streak to six in a row after scoring a 6-3 victory over 27th-ranked Dickinson (1-3) Wednesday evening at the Prager Family Squash Facility in Annapolis.

Freshmen Tighe Mullarkey (Locust Valley, N.Y.) and Sean Wu (Fr / Princeton, N.J.) earned 3-0 sweeps against their respective opponents to give Navy an early 2-0 lead before Edwin Hess earned a 3-0 victory at the No. 9 spot to give the Red Devils their first win.

Navy, however, would not be denied, as the Mids rattled off six-consecutive wins to clinch the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference victory over Dickinson.

Match Highlights
• The middle of Navy's lineup was phenomenal, as Navy won the No. 4-8 matches to go along with the victory at No. 1
• Navy's freshmen won 4 of their 5 matches and were responsible for 4 of the 6 victories on the evening
• Four of the 9 matches went extra games with the two teams splitting the results
• Matt Wang (Jr / Malvern, Pa.) played one of the most exciting matches of the evening, a match that would last more than 80 minutes ... Wang rallied from a 2-1 deficit and overcame a handful of match points to earn a 3-2 victory (11-6, 8-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9) over Dickinson's Joe Smythe at the No. 1 position
• Matthew Kang (Fr / Malvern, Pa.) had a strong performance at No. 4 and despite an extended match, defeated Kobe Fleming in 4 games
• The Mids dropped back-to-back matches at No. 2 and No. 3, but both were 4-game decisions ... in particular, team captain Henry Sparkman (Sr / Darien, Conn.) went toe-to-toe with Dickinson's Omar Ali at No. 2 (12-10, 13-11, 9-11, 11-1)
• Ramsay Killinger (Fr / Wyndmoor, Pa.) posted a 14-12, 11-9, 11-7 win over Dickinson's Cormac Sullivan at No. 8 to clinch the team victory with Navy's fifth win of the night
• Navy improved to 13-3 all-time against Dickinson
• The two programs met 3 times a year ago with Navy earning an 8-1 win in November. Dickinson beat Navy 5-4 at the MASC Championship and by the same count at the CSA Team Championship. The Mids were playing a man down in both losses.
• Wednesday's match marked Navy's last at home until Jan. 21 when it plays host to Franklin & Marshall ... Navy will play 11 matches between now and their next home contest.

What's Ahead
• Navy will be back in action this weekend with a pair of matches at the home site of Penn where it will face the nation's top-ranked team in the Penn Quakers (3-0) on Friday at 6:00 pm before closing out the two-day trip with an 11:00 am match on Sunday against Bates (0-0), who is ranked 22nd.
• A live scoring link for both matches will be available on the Navy Athletics website and via Club Locker.
• Fans can watch a live video stream of Navy's road match at Penn on Saturday with links available on the Navy Athletics website.
• At this time, there is no streaming information available for the neutral site match against Bates.

Navy 6, Dickinson 3
1 | Matt Wang (N) def Joe Smythe (D) // 11-6, 8-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9
2 | Omar Ali (D) def Henry Sparkman (N) // 12-10, 13-11, 9-11, 11-1
3 | Mark Naguib (D) def Lucas Spiro (N) // 8-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-8
4 | Matthew Kang (N) def Kobe Fleming (D) // 11-7, 11-7, 13-15, 11-9
5 | Alexander Orr (N) def Samuel Knipp (D) // 11-7, 11-2, 11-5
6 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Jack Corkum (D) // 11-3, 11-7, 11-5
7 | Sean Wu (N) def James Kiracofe (D) // 11-6, 11-6, 11-8
8 | Ramsay Killinger (N) def Cormac Sullivan (D) // 14-12, 11-9, 11-7
9 | Edwin Hess (D) def Holden Woodward (N) // 13-11, 11-8, 11-9


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Players Mentioned

Tighe Mullarkey

Tighe Mullarkey

Freshman
Alexander Orr

Alexander Orr

Sophomore
Henry Sparkman

Henry Sparkman

Senior
Lucas Spiro

Lucas Spiro

Junior
Matt Wang

Matt Wang

Junior
Matthew Kang

Matthew Kang

Freshman
Ramsay Killinger

Ramsay Killinger

Freshman
Holden Woodward

Holden Woodward

Freshman
Sean Wu

Sean Wu

Freshman

Players Mentioned

Tighe Mullarkey

Tighe Mullarkey

Freshman
Alexander Orr

Alexander Orr

Sophomore
Henry Sparkman

Henry Sparkman

Senior
Lucas Spiro

Lucas Spiro

Junior
Matt Wang

Matt Wang

Junior
Matthew Kang

Matthew Kang

Freshman
Ramsay Killinger

Ramsay Killinger

Freshman
Holden Woodward

Holden Woodward

Freshman
Sean Wu

Sean Wu

Freshman