Battling back from a pair of heartbreaking 5-4 losses a week ago in Annapolis, the 18th-ranked Navy squash team (13-6) scored a pair of wins over #26 Wesleyan (6-3) and #28 Connecticut College (4-8) this weekend. The Mids picked up an 8-1 neutral site victory over Connecticut College Friday evening played at Wesleyan's Rosenbaum Squash Center. Navy followed up with a 9-0 sweep of Wesleyan on Saturday morning, as Navy now owns a combined 46-1 record against Connecticut College and Wesleyan.
Weekend Highlights
• Navy won 12 of its 17 matches by 3-0 marks and no individual match was extended to five games
• Navy's only loss of the weekend was a 3-0 decision (11-7, 12-10, 11-2) by Connecticut College's Henry Pelletier over Navy's
Alexander Orr (Jr / Haverford, Pa.)
• Navy was impressive from top to bottom despite being without #4 player
Matthew Kang (So / Malvern, Pa.) who was sidelined due to an injury sustained last weekend
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Matt Wang (Sr / Malvern, Pa.) earned a solid victory (14-12, 13-15, 11-4, 11-3) at #1 in his match against Connecticut College's Alex Moncada ... Moncada came into the match with a 10-1 record
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Eli Levy (Fr / Williamstown, Mass.), who improved to 7-3 on the year, earned his first victory as a member of the Mids' starting ladder, scoring an 11-7, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6 win against Gabriel Solonsky of Connecticut College at the #7 slot
• Team captain
Lucas Spiro (Sr / Buffalo, N.Y.) also got back on track over the weekend, earning his 53rd and 54th victories ... he is now just 5 wins shy of tying Brad Seidel (2007-11) for 25th on the Mids' all-time wins list
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Sean Wu (So / Princeton, N.J.) pushed into the #9 slot for the Mids this weekend where he went 2-0, defeating both opponents by 3-0 counts
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Wenqing Tang (Fr / Villanova, Pa.) added a pair of wins to his season total and stands atop the wins leader board with a 17-2 record ... he has won 7-consecutive matches for the Mids
• Meanwhile, Wang is now 66-47 over his four seasons and is tied for 16th (alongside Hunter Beck, 2010-14 and Jack Herold, 2014-18) on the Mids' all-time wins list ... with his win over Moncada on Friday evening, he became just the 20th player in school history to reach 65 wins ... he is now only four wins shy of becoming one of only 12 players to reach 70 wins
• Navy returns to action next Thursday when it makes the trip to Haverford ... action is set to begin at 6:00 pm
Navy 8, Connecticut College 1
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Alex Moncada (CC) // 14-12, 13-15, 11-4, 11-3
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Hudson Dunn (CC) // 11-3, 11-6, 11-5
3 | Henry Pelletier (CC) def
Alexander Orr (N) // 11-7, 12-10, 11-2
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Adam Elkaliuoby (CC) // 12-10, 11-5, 11-7
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Siddhant Rewari (CC) // 11-9, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6
6 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Noah Fish (CC) // 11-5, 11-7, 11-6
7 |
Eli Levy (N) def Gabriel Solonsky (CC) // 11-7, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6
8 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Andrew Nemphos (CC) // 11-7, 11-2, 11-7
9 |
Sean Wu (N) def Oliver Machiels (CC) // 11-3, 11-7, 11-7
EXH |
Holden Woodward (N) def Josiah Rondon (CC) // 11-7, 11-5, 11-4
Navy 9, Wesleyan 0
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Abhinav Gupta (W) // 11-6, 11-4, 11-9
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Dhairya Shah (W) // 11-6, 11-5, 4-11, 11-1
3 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Ethan Yan (W) // 11-2, 11-8, 11-8
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Preston Crawford (W) // 11-1, 8-11, 11-8, 11-3
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Jack Lungstrum (W) // 11-8, 11-7, 11-1
6 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Morgan Shatzman (W) // 11-7, 11-9, 11-4
7 |
Eli Levy (N) def Zachary Idinopulos (W) // 11-4, 11-9, 11-5
8 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Rafay Khan (W) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-4
9 |
Sean Wu (N) def Ian Stein (W) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-3
### Go Navy ###