The 20th-ranked Navy squash team improved to 7-0 this season after defeating its five opponents over the weekend in its annual Veterans Day weekend tournament held at Prager Family Squash Facility in Halsey Field House and the Bancroft Hall Squash Courts in Annapolis. The Mids kicked off the action-packed weekend with a 5-4 upset victory over 16th-ranked MIT (3-2) on Friday evening. It was Navy's first win over MIT since 2018. Navy tacked on 9-0 wins against Boston University (3-6), Bucknell (1-3) and Fordham (7-2) on Saturday and closed out tournament action with a 9-0 win against Georgetown (1-2).
Weekend Highlights
• Navy played all 11 of its available players over the weekend with seven of the 11 earning four or more wins.
• Freshman
Wenqing Tang (Villanova, Pa.) was the lone player to see action in all five matches and thus led Navy with a 5-0 record. Meanwhile,
Matt Wang (Sr / Malvern, Pa.),
Alexander Orr (So / Haverford, Pa.),
Tighe Mullarkey (So-Jr / Locust Valley, N.Y.),
Hudson Poirier (Fr / Wellesley, Mass.),
Eli Levy (Fr / Williamstown, Pa.) and
Holden Woodward (So / Richmond, Va.) finished with four wins apiece.
• The Mids surrendered just four individual matches among the 45 played and just 18 games out of 143.
• Seniors
Matt Wang (Sr / Malvern, Pa.) and
Lucas Spiro (Buffalo, N.Y.) inched closer to milestone victories. Wang needs just one more win to reach 60 for his career, while Spiro, the Mids' team captain, is just one shy of his 50th-career win.
What's Ahead
• Navy will play three matches in the upcoming week at three different sites
• The Mids will play a mid-week match at Dickinson (Wednesday / 5:30 pm), travel to Princeton for a 1:00 pm match on Saturday and return home to Annapolis on Sunday to play host to St. Lawrence at 11:00 am.
Navy 5, MIT 4
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Mero Elmarassy (MIT) // 11-3, 11-1, 11-6
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Philip Hyun Su Price (MIT) // 13-11, 13-11, 11-9
3 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Robert Albani (MIT) // 11-5, 12-10, 11-5
4 | Sean-Winston Luo (MIT) def
Matthew Kang (N) // 11-4, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9
5 | Mitav Nayak (MIT) def
Lucas Spiro (N) // 6-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-5, 11-9
6 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Collin Wen (MIT) // 8-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5
7 | Zachary Starr (MIT) def
Ramsay Killinger (N) // 8-11, 11-3, 11-0, 11-5
8 | Eddie Xue (MIT) def.
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) // 11-5, 11-5, 11-13, 11-3
9 |
Hudson Poirier (N) def Lars Barkman (MIT) // 11-4, 7-11, 10-12, 14-12, 11-9
EXH |
Eli Levy (N) def JJ Detweiler (MIT) // 11-6, 5-11, 11-5, 11-2
Navy 9, Boston U. 0
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Jonathan Strong (BU) // 11-1, 11-2, 11-7
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Jason Stein (BU) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-2
3 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Dylan Bakshi (BU) // 11-3, 11-6, 11-6
4 |
Matthew Kang (N) def Sean Gregg (BU) // 11-5, 11-5, 11-1
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Sbhishek Srivastava (BU) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-1
6 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Leo Schroeder (BU) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-2
7 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Sambhav Sancheti (BU) // 11-2, 11-1, 11-0
8 |
Eli Levy (N) def Prithviraj Garha (BU) // 11-3, 11-2, 11-0
9 |
Holden Woodward (N) def Luca Glickman (BU) // 11-1, 11-2, 11-5
Navy 9, Bucknell 0
1 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Cooper Pearce (B) // 11-2, 11-3, 11-4
2 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Natty Dunn (B) // 11-4, 11-4, 11-3
3 |
Matthew Kang (N) def Linus Maurer (B) // 11-1, 11-0, 11-4
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Will Vincent (B) // 11-2, 11-3, 11-3
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Gavin Frechette (B) // 11-1, 11-4, 11-2
6 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def William Latara (B) // 11-2, 11-2, 11-4
7 |
Hudson Poirier (N) def William Duncan (B) // 11-2, 11-5, 11-4
8 |
Eli Levy (N) def Cameron Hill (B) // 11-3, 11-1, 11-1
9 |
Holden Woodward (N) def Will Whiting (B) // 11-2, 11-2, 11-2
Navy 9, Fordham 0
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Nicholas Gilman (F) // 11-1, 11-5, 11-6
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Bennett Van Liew (F) // 11-3, 11-5, 11-2
3 |
Matthew Kang (N) def Jack Stanley (F) // 11-3, 11-2, 11-3
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Peter Vorbach (F) // 11-5, 11-8, 11-4
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Adam Sakr (F) // 11-6, 11-5, 11-6
6 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Robert Cruikshank (F) // 11-7, 11-2, 11-4
7 |
Hudson Poirier (N) def Charles Friedman (F) // 11-0, 11-2, 11-5
8 |
Eli Levy (N) def Nathan Martinez (F) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-1
9 |
Holden Woodward (N) def Crispin McCarthy (F) // 11-2, 11-4, 11-4
EXH |
Holden Woodward (N) def Joe Walsh (F) // 11-8, 11-4, 11-5
Navy 9, Georgetown 0
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def William Cunnion (G) // 11-2, 11-2, 11-3
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Lachlan Abbott (G) // 11-3, 11-8, 11-5
3 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Brooks Clifford (G) // 11-3, 11-5, 11-8
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Teddy Donohue (G) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-3
5 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def John Zhang (G) // 11-3, 11-9, 11-0
6 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Shiraz Awan (G) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-2
7 |
Hudson Poirier (N) def Caleb Chong (G) // 11-2, 11-3, 11-3
8 |
Eli Levy (N) def Sam Subramanian (G) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-7
9 |
Holden Woodward (N) def Deep Ghosh (G) // 11-7, 11-5, 11-0
### Go Navy ###