ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Five players posted victories in both singles and doubles as the Navy men's tennis team recorded a pair of wins over Lafayette and Lehigh Saturday in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. The Mids (20-11, 2-1) defeated the Leopards (7-10, 0-3) by the score of 4-0 in Easton and won a 4-2 decision over the Mountain Hawks (7-9, 1-1) in Bethlehem.
Navy 4, Lafayette 0
Nathan Nguyen and
Aaron Gu won a pair of matches against Lafayette while
Aniketh Ayinala,
J.J. Etterbeek and
Herrick Legaspi each won two matches against Lehigh.
Gu and
Jason Kim posted a 6-3 victory in their No. 2 doubles match against Jake Magnusson and William Wooley in the first match to finish. After Lafayette won at No. 3 doubles,
Nathan Nguyen teamed with older brother
Nicholas Nguyen to give the Mids a 7-6 (7-5) win over Arman Ganchi and Nick McKenzie at No. 1 doubles in the final match of the three left on the courts.
Gu also was the first to finish his singles match as he defeated Woolley, 6-0, 6-2, at the No. 5 flight to give Navy a 2-0 lead.
Nathan Nguyen followed with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Ganchi at No. 1 singles to make the score 3-0.
Tommy Kim ended play with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Derrin Lerner at the No. 4 flight.
Navy 4, Lehigh 2
At the other end of the valley, Legaspi and
Steve Nguyen did not lose a game in defeating Luke Donovan and Sean Jaeger at No. 3 doubles. The Mids took the 1-0 lead when Ayinala and Etterbeek defeated Wyeth Anzilotti and Jackson Morash, 6-4, at No. 2 doubles.
Etterbeek then won a 6-3, 6-3 decision over Ben Horn-Bourque at No. 5 singles to take the advantage to 2-0. Lehigh tied the match with victories at first No. 3 and then No. 1 singles.
Ayinala posted a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 6 singles to give the Mids a 3-2 lead. Legapsi ended play when he recorded a 7-6, 6-3 win over Marc Blekhman at the No. 2 flight.
Up Next
Navy will play another split squad doubleheader Sunday with matches at home against Xavier and at No. 75 Monmouth. Both of those matches are slated to start at 10 a.m.
Navy 4, Lafayette 0
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (2-1-3)
1. Nguyen, Nathan / Nguyen, Nicholas (NAVY) def. Ganchi, Arman / McKenzie, Nick (LAF) 7-6 (7-5)
2. Gu, Aaron / Kim, Jason (NAVY) def. Magnusson, Jake / Woolley, William (LAF) 6-3
3. Gelber, Sam / Lerner, Derrin (LAF) def. Buckingham, Graydon / Liu, Eric (NAVY) 6-3
Singles (5-1-4)
1. Nguyen, Nathan (NAVY) def. Ganchi, Arman (LAF) 6-1, 6-4
2. Magnusson, Jake (LAF) vs. Young, Jake (NAVY) 3-6, 3-3, unfinished
3. McKenzie, Nick (LAF) vs. Kim, Jason (NAVY) 4-6, 3-5, unfinished
4. Kim, Tommy (NAVY) def. Lerner, Derrin (LAF) 6-3, 6-1
5. Gu, Aaron (NAVY) def. Woolley, William (LAF) 6-0, 6-2
6. Gelber, Sam (LAF) vs. McNair, Matthew (NAVY) 4-6, 1-4, unfinished
Navy 4, Lehigh 2
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (3-2)
1. Blekhman, Marc / Kleiman, Matt (LEH) vs. Garner, Luke / Panyan, Sasha (NAVY) 5-4, unfinished
2. Ayinala, Aniketh / Etterbeek, J.J. (NAVY) def. Anzilotti, Wyeth / Morash, Jackson (LEH) 6-4
3. Legaspi, Herrick / Nguyen, Steve (NAVY) def. Donovan, Luke / Jaeger, Sean (LEH) 6-0
Singles (5-3-1-6-2)
1. Kleiman, Matt (LEH) def. Panyan, Sasha (NAVY) 6-4, 6-4
2. Legaspi, Herrick (NAVY) def. Blekhman, Marc (LEH) 7-6, 6-3
3. Jaeger, Sean (LEH) def. Garner, Luke (NAVY) 6-2, 6-4
4. Morash, Jackson (LEH) vs. Nguyen, Steve (NAVY) 7-6 (7-5), 5-2, unfinished
5. Etterbeek, J.J. (NAVY) def. Horn-Bourque, Ben (LEH) 6-3, 6-3
6. Ayinala, Aniketh (NAVY) def. Anzilotti, Wyeth (LEH) 6-1, 6-2