The #21 Navy squash team (11-8) opened the weekend with a 6-3 victory over #26 Bowdoin (3-6) Friday evening at Squash on Fire in Washington, D.C. before closing out the weekend with an 8-1 loss to #19 Franklin & Marshall (9-6) on Sunday in the Mids' final home match of the season.
Match Highlights
• After falling behind 2-0, Navy won six of the last seven matches to secure its 33rd win in the 45-match history against Bowdoin
• With the match knotted a one win apiece, Franklin & Marshall went on to win seven in a row to earn the victory, its 27th in the 66-match history
• Six of Navy's nine players this weekend earned victories, including
Ramsay Killinger (Fr / Wyndmoor, Pa.) who posted a 2-0 record at the #8 position ... Killinger picked up a 3-1 victory (11-6, 11-8, 5-11, 11-7) over Bowdoin's Justin Barr before earning the Mids' only win in Sunday's home finale against Juanber Hinostroza (11-8, 6-11, 11-8, 11-6)
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Tighe Mullarkey (Fr, So / Locust Valley, N.Y.) came up just short of joining Killinger in the two-win column ... the rookie cruised to a 3-0 win (11-7, 11-9, 11-9) over Bowdoin's Aryan Singh at the #6 spot before dropping a 3-2 decision to Franklin & Marshall's Samuel Freed (F&M) ... the two players exchange wins with Freed securing the win with an 11-8 victory in the fifth)
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Sean Wu (Fr / Princeton, N.J.) built a 2-0 advantage in his match against Neil Bam of Bowdoin at the #7 position, but Bam pushed it to a fifth game after earning 11-8 and 11-7 wins in games three and four, respectively ... Wu closed out the match with a hard-fought 13-11 win in the fifth ... Wu put together another strong effort against Franklin & Marshall's Evann Tan on Sunday, but fell in four games ... Tan's three wins all were decided but just two points and all exceeded the 11-point minimum (12-10, 2-11, 12-10, 13-11)
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Matt Wang (Jr / Malvern, Pa.) captured his 50th-career win behind an 11-7, 11-4, 11-5 victory over Bowdoin's Jack Winston on Friday evening ... Wang, however, stumbled for the first time in the last six matches with a 3-0 loss to F&M's Kyle Broadhurst (11-9, 13-11, 11-7) on Sunday.
• Killinger stands atop Navy's wins leader board with a 13-6 record, while
Alexander Orr (So / Haverford, Pa.) is 12-6 and Wang is 11-7
What's Ahead
• Navy will play back-to-back evenings in the Philadelphia region this week, traveling to Drexel on Wednesday evening (5:30 pm) and Haverford on Thursday (6:00 pm)
Navy 6, Bowdoin 3
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Jack Winston (B) // 11-7, 11-4, 11-5
2 | Nick Wilkinson (B) def
Henry Sparkman (N) // 11-7, 13-11, 11-4
3 | Fotis Zafiriou (B) def
Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-9, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8
4 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Abhiroop Reddy (B) // 5-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-6
5 |
Matthew Kang (N) def Jackson Rho (B) // 11-6, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8
6 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Aryan Singh (B) // 11-7, 11-9, 11-9
7 |
Sean Wu (N) def Neil Bam (B) // 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 7-11, 13-11
8 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Justin Barr (B) // 11-6, 11-8, 5-11, 11-7
9 | Benjamin Korengold (B) def
Holden Woodward (N) // 11-2, 11-6, 11-7
Franklin & Marshall 8, Navy 1
1 | Kyle Broadhurst (F&M) def
Matt Wang (N) // 11-9, 13-11, 11-7
2 | Sharan Punjabi (F&M) def
Henry Sparkman (N) // 11-9, 11-7, 9-11, 11-7
3 | Marco DiFilippo (F&M) def
Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-4, 11-8, 11-7
4 | Jordan Sprecher (F&M) def
Alexander Orr (N) // 11-7, 11-4, 11-1
5 | Noah Katzer (F&M) def
Matthew Kang (N) // 11-9, 11-8, 11-7
6 | Samuel Freed (F&M) def
Tighe Mullarkey (N) // 9-11, 11-5, 11-5, 4-11, 11-8
7 | Evann Tan (F&M) def
Sean Wu (N) // 12-10, 2-11, 12-10, 13-11
8 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Juanber Hinostroza (F&M) // 11-8, 6-11, 11-8, 11-6
9 | Hunarpal Kohli (F&M) def
Holden Woodward (N) // 9-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-3
### Go Navy ###