Coming off wins in two of three matches a week ago, the #21 Navy squash team (10-7) returns to action on Friday when it makes the short trip to Washington, D.C. to battle #26 Bowdoin (3-5) at Squash on Fire beginning at 6:30 pm. The Mids will play their final home match of the year on Sunday when they play host to #19 Franklin & Marshall (7-6). Match time is set for 2:00 pm at the Prager Family Squash Facility and Navy will honor its lone senior, team captain Henry Sparkman.

This Week's Schedule
Friday
6:30 pm - #21 Navy vs. #26 Bowdoin // Squash on Fire, Washington, D.C.
How to follow: Live scoring link available on Navy Athletics website (NavySports.com)

Sunday
2:00 pm - #21 Navy vs. #19 Franklin & Marshall // Prager Family Squash Facility, Annapolis, Md.
How to follow: Live scoring and video links available on Navy Athletics website (NavySports.com)

Admission is free to all home Navy squash matches. A reminder to fans planning on attending matches, vehicular access to the Naval Academy is limited to those with a Department of Defense identification card. It is suggested that fans park downtown and walk through the main gate. Please note that a government issued identification card must be carried and presented at the gate.

Navy's Projected Lineup
Player (Yr / Hometown / 2023-24 record / career record)
1 |  Matt Wang (Jr / Malvern, Pa. / 10-6 / 49-31)
2 |  Henry Sparkman (Sr / Darien, Conn. / 7-9 / 43-31)
3 |  Lucas Spiro (Jr / Buffalo, N.Y. / 9-8 / 42-35)
4 |  Alexander Orr (So / Haverford, Pa. / 11-5 / 34-16)
5 |  Matt Kang (Fr / Malvern, Pa. / 7-7 / 7-7)
6 |  Tighe Mullarkey (Fr, So / Locust Valley, N.Y. / 9-7 / 21-8)
7 |  Sean Wu (Fr / Princeton, N.J. / 9-7 / 9-7)
8 |  Ramsay Killinger (Fr / Wyndmoor, Pa. / 11-6 / 11-6)
9 |  Holden Woodward (Fr / Richmond, Va. / 3-12 / 3-12)

Last Time Out
• Navy overcame playing a man down last weekend due to injury to secure wins in two of its three matches played on the road ... the Mids opened the weekend with a 5-4 victory over #23 St. Lawrence (4-4), followed by a 7-2 neutral site win against Brown (1-7), the top-ranked club team in squash ... Navy closed out the weekend dropping a 7-2 decision to #17 Hobart (3-5)
• Six of Navy's eight players this weekend won two of their three matches, including Matt Wang who went 3-0 at the #1 position on the ladder ... Wang swept his St. Lawrence and Brown foes, but needed five games to knock off Hobart's Hussein Labib (6-11, 11-9, 12-10, 4-11, 11-5)
• Wang is now just one win shy of reaching 50 for his career
• Five other players put together 2-1 marks for the weekend. Team captain Henry Sparkman, Lucas Spiro, Alexander Orr and Tighe Mullarkey defeated their St. Lawrence and Brown foes, while Ramsay Killinger also recorded a 2-1 record, defeating his Brown and Hobart opponents
• Orr and Killinger lead the Mids with 11 wins apiece ... Orr picked up his 11th win of the year in spectacular fashion, taking down Brown's Will McLaren in five games (11-13, 11-5, 11-6, 12-14, 11-4) ... Orr also eclipsed the 20-win mark for his young career over the weekend as he now stands 21-7 ... Killinger, meanwhile, joined Wang as the only two Navy players to earn wins over Hobart and in doing so Killinger scored his 11th win of the year (Matthew Aldana // 11-9, 6-11, 15-13, 3-11, 11-7)

About the Opponents
Bowdoin
• Navy and Bowdoin will meet for the 44th time with Navy holding a 32-11 advantage in the series
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Dec. 11, 1971 with the Mids scoring a 9-0 victory over the Polar Bears on their home court
• Navy won the first 21 matches in the series before Bowdoin earned its first win, a 5-4 victory played at Army, on Jan. 16, 1998
• The two programs met regularly from 1971 through 2012, but took a step away until the two met at the CSA Team Championship in 2020 ... Navy won that match 5-4 en route to eventually winning the Summers Cup ... the two met during the regular season in each of the last two years with Bowdoin winning both - 6-3 on Jan. 21, 2022 and 5-4 on Dec. 4, 2022
• The Polar Bears own a 3-5 record this season with wins over Brown (5-4), Wesleyan (9-0) and Hamilton (7-2) ... their losses are to Trinity (9-0), Tufts (8-1), Williams (9-0), Middlebury (8-1) and Amherst (6-3)
• Bowdoin is schedule to play at Dickinson on Friday at 9:00 am before facing the Mids later that evening
• #1 Jack Winston (Jr / Chestnut Hill, Mass.) leads the team in the wins category with a 5-1 record, while #2 Nick Wilkinson (Jr / New Haven, Conn.) and #9 Benjamin Korengold (Fr / Bronxville, N.Y.) all stand 4-4 to date.

Franklin & Marshall
• The Mids and the Diplomats will meet for 65th time in series history with Navy holding a 38-26 advantage
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Jan. 6, 1968 with Navy earning a 9-0 win
• Outside of the COVID year, the two programs have met every year since 1999
• Sunday afternoon's match marks the 33rd meeting in Annapolis between the two programs with Navy holding a 26-6 lead
• Franklin & Marshall posted an 8-1 victory over the Mids a year ago in Lancaster, as the Mids were forced to play a man down for three-quarters of the year
• Franklin & Marshall stands 19th in the national rankings and owns an 7-6 record
• The Diplomats have wins over Dickinson (9-0), Chatham (7-2), Bates (9-0), Wesleyan (9-0), Denison (9-0), MIT (5-4) and Connecticut College (9-0). Their losses have come against Penn (8-1), Virginia (9-0), Williams (8-1), Amherst (6-3), Middlebury (6-3) and Tufts (7-2
• F&M is schedule to play Bowdoin at home on Saturday afternoon before making the trip to Annapolis on Sunday
• Sharan Punjabi (Fr / Mumbai, India), the team's #2 player,  and #3 Jordan Sprecher (Jr / Rye Brook, N.Y.) are atop the wins leader board with matching 9-4 records. Kyle Broadhurst (So / Pittsburgh, Pa.), the team's #1 player, and Noah Katzer (So / Sherman, Conn.), who plays #4, both have 8 wins

What's Ahead
• Navy will play back-to-back evenings in the Philadelphia region next week, traveling to Drexel on Wednesday evening (5:30 pm) and Haverford on Thursday (6:00 pm)

### Go Navy ###