The 11-8 Navy squash team will back-to-back evenings in the Philadelphia region this week when the Mids face #7 Drexel (4-5) Wednesday evening (5:30 pm) at the Kline & Specter Squash Center and #31 Haverford (2-6) on Thursday beginning at 6:00 pm at the GIAC Squash Courts. Navy, ranked 21st nationally, has just two weeks remaining in the regular season before kicking off postseason action at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championship slated for Feb. 9-11 in Philadelphia.

This Week's Schedule
Wednesday
5:30 pm - #21 Navy at #7 Drexel // Kline & Specter Squash Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
How to follow: Live scoring link available on Navy Athletics website (NavySports.com)

Thursday
6:00 pm - #21 Navy at #31 Haverford // GIAC Squash Courts, Haverford, Pa.
How to follow: Live scoring and video links available on Navy Athletics website (NavySports.com)

Navy's Projected Lineup
Player (Yr / Hometown / 2023-24 record / career record)
1 |  Matt Wang (Jr / Malvern, Pa. / 11-7 / 50-32)
2 |  Henry Sparkman (Sr / Darien, Conn. / 7-11 / 43-33)
3 |  Lucas Spiro (Jr / Buffalo, N.Y. / 9-10 / 42-37)
4 |  Alexander Orr (So / Haverford, Pa. / 12-6 / 35-17)
5 |  Matt Kang (Fr / Malvern, Pa. / 8-8 / 8-8)
6 |  Tighe Mullarkey (Fr, So / Locust Valley, N.Y. / 10-8 / 22-9)
7 |  Sean Wu (Fr / Princeton, N.J. / 10-8 / 10-8)
8 |  Ramsay Killinger (Fr / Wyndmoor, Pa. / 13-6 / 13-6)
9 |  Holden Woodward (Fr / Richmond, Va. / 3-14 / 3-14)

Last Time Out
• Navy kicked off last 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.
• 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 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)
• Tighe Mullarkey 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)
• Sean Wu 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)
• Matt Wang 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 is 12-6 and Wang is 11-7

About the Opponents
Drexel
• Drexel and Navy are meeting for the 17th time with the Dragons holding an 11-5 advantage in the series
• Navy won the first 5 matches, while Drexel has won 11 in a row, including last year's 9-0 victory played at Squash on Fire in Washington, D.C.
• Navy's last win in the series was at the CSA Team Championship on Feb. 16, 2014 when the Mids edged the Dragons 5-4
• Drexel enters Wednesday evening's match with a 4-5 record, securing wins over #24 Chatham (9-0), #31 Haverford (9-0), #15 Western (9-0) and #8 Virginia (7-2), while dropping matches to #1 Penn (7-2), #5 Princeton (5-4), #3 Yale (9-0), #6 Columbia (5-4) and #9 Cornell (5-4)
• While the Dragons have lost 3-consecutive matches (all vs. top-10 teams), this will be just their second match since the beginning of the calendar year
• Guido Lindner (Fr / Woerden, Netherlands) is atop the Drexel wins leader board with a 7-2 record, while Yuri Pelbart (So / Sao Paolo, Brazil), Fritiof Jacobsson (Jr / Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jose Lopek (5th Yr / San Salvador, El Salvador) had 6 wins apiece ... the 4 players have played between the #3 and #7 positions throughout the season
• Last year, Drexel earned its best finish in the Potter Cup division of the College Squash Association Team Championship by placing fifth ... the Dragons dropped a 7-2 decision to eventual National Champion Penn in the opener, but bounced back to beat Princeton (5-4) and Cornell (7-2).

Haverford
• The Mids and Haverford will meet for 24th time in series history with Navy winning all 23 previously-played matches
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Feb. 26, 1949 with Navy earning a 5-1 win
• Thursday's match marks just the sixth time the two have met at Haverford, including the second year in a row - 9-0 on Jan. 29, 2006 / 9-0 on Dec. 5, 2008 / 9-0 on Jan. 31, 2015 / 9-0 on Feb. 4, 2017 / 7-2 on Jan. 19, 2023
• The Fords enter the match against the Mids with a 2-6 record, picking up victories against Chatham (5-4) and Vassar (6-3). Since the turn of the calendar year, Haverford has lost 2 in a row, dropping a 5-4 decision to Connecticut College, followed by a 9-0 loss to Wesleyan last weekend
• Haverford has shifted its lineup around throughout the year and no one player has played a particular spot on the ladder for all of its matches
• Francis Betkowski (Fr / Mercersburg, Pa.) has played 4 different positions on the ladder to earn a team-best 4 wins this season, while Daniel Braun (Fr / Chicago, Ill.) has played 3 different spots to post 3 wins

What's Ahead
• Navy will enjoy the weekend off before returning to action on Friday, Feb. 2 when it travels to Pittsburgh, Pa. to face #24 Chatham (7:00 pm) ... Navy will remain in Pittsburgh for the weekend where it will face #15 Western on Feb. 3 (7:00 pm) and #14 Rochester on Feb. 4 (12:00 pm) in what will be the final weekend of the regular season for the Midshipmen

### Go Navy ###