Playing in front of a large gathering of friends and family, the 18th-ranked Navy squash team (14-6) earned a 9-0 victory over #25 Haverford (3-7) at the GIAC Squash Courts in Haverford, Pa. Thursday evening. The win marked the Mids' 25th-consecutive victory over the Fords in what was only the seventh time (third-straight season) the two have met on Haverford's home courts.
Match Highlights
• Navy won 8 of the 9 matches by way of 3-0 results with only Haverford's Kai Schinaman pushing
Alexander Orr (Jr / Haverford, Pa.) to a fourth game at the #3 position
• Team captain
Lucas Spiro (Sr / Buffalo, N.Y.) set the tone for the Mids, as he dealt Henry Jiang a 3-0 loss before any of the other matches had even played two games ... in doing so, he captured his 55th collegiate win and inched closer to Navy's top-25 wins list which is currently held by Brad Seidel (2007-11) with 59 wins
•
Tighe Mullarkey (So/Jr / Locust Valley, N.Y.),
Eli Levy (Fr / Williamstown, Mass.) and
Matt Wang (Sr / Malvern, Pa.) swept through their competition at #5, #7 and #1 respectively, before
Sean Wu (So / Princeton, N.J.) clinched the team victory behind an 11-4, 11-5, 11-9 win over Daniel Braun
• Wang who entered the match in a three-way to for 16th on Navy's all-time wins list, pushed up to 67-career wins and is now in a three-way tie for 14th alongside Scott Hackman (2002-06) and Bill Kacergis (2012-16) ... he is now only three wins shy of becoming one of only 12 players to reach 70 wins
• Navy closed out the match with victories by
Ramsay Killinger (So / Wyndmoor, Pa.), Orr,
Michael Tierney Jr. (Fr / Berwyn, Pa.) and
Wenqing Tang (Fr / Villanova, Pa.) to improve to 14-6 on the year
• Tang (Fr / Villanova, Pa.) extended his winning streak to 8-consecutive matches and stands atop Navy's leader board with an 18-2 record this season ... he is looking to become the fifth different player during
Tyler Osborne's seven-year tenure as head coach to reach the 20-win milestone, joining
Alexander Orr (23 wins / 2022-23),
Matt Wang (22 / 2022-23),
Henry Sparkman (21 / 2022-23) and Millen Randell (20 / 2022-23)
• Navy has 6 players on its roster who hail from the state of Pennsylvania with 5 (Killinger, Orr, Tang, Tierney Jr., Wang) of those 6 playing in last night's match
• Navy will have the weekend off before returning to action the following Saturday and Sunday against Rochester (Feb. 1 / 1:00 pm / Annapolis, Md.) and Hobart (Feb. 2 / 1:15 pm / Washington, D.C.).
Navy 9, Haverford 0
1 |
Matt Wang (N) def Noah Tunis (H) // 11-6, 11-6, 13-11
2 |
Wenqing Tang (N) def Aaryaman Jaising (H) // 11-3, 11-7, 11-8
3 |
Alexander Orr (N) def Kai Schinaman (H) // 11-5, 6-11, 11-6, 11-3
4 |
Lucas Spiro (N) def Henry Jiang (H) // 11-3, 11-5, 11-8
5 |
Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Qianzhi Zhao (H) // 11-6, 11-8, 14-12
6 |
Ramsay Killinger (N) def Garret Fantini (H) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-3
7 |
Eli Levy (N) def Francis Betkowski (H) // 11-8, 11-8, 11-6
8 |
Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Arvin Krishnan (H) // 11-6, 11-2, 11-6
9 |
Sean Wu (N) def Daniel Braun (H) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-9
EXH |
Holden Woodward (N) def Zadoc Bond (H) // 11-9, 6-1 ret.
### Go Navy ###