ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy men's tennis team (9-5) posted a 4-3 victory over Hampton (0-3) Saturday in Annapolis and lost a 4-0 decision to Air Force (5-5) at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
The doubles point between Navy and Air Force was not decided until the end of a lengthy tiebreaker at the No. 2 flight. The Mids won at No. 1 doubles as
Luke Garner and
Jake Young posted a 6-4 win, with the Falcons winning by the same score at No. 3 doubles. The Air Force team of AJ Moore and Langdon Tingleaf defeated Navy's
Herrick Legaspi and
Nathan Nguyen, 7-6 (11-9), in the deciding match to give the Falcons the 1-0 lead.
Air Force then won a trio of straight-set singles matches to earn the victory.
Back in Annapolis, the Mids won all three doubles matches against the Pirates, with the victories at the Nos. 1 and 3 flights decided in tiebreakers and the final score in the No. 2 match being 7-5.
Charlie Spencer posted a 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 4 singles to give Navy a 2-0 lead. After a Hampton win at No. 5 singles,
Graydon Buckingham won a 7-6 (7-1), 6-4 match at No. 6 singles to make the score 3-1.
George Cutone followed with a 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 victory at No. 3 singles to earn the match-clinching fourth team point.
Navy will play host to Georgetown and Richmond on Feb. 23.
Navy 4, Hampton 3
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (1-2-3)
1. Buckingham, Graydon / Kim, Jason (NAVY) def. Armbrister, Donte / Arora, Aryan, 7-6 (7-3)
2. Cutone, George / Spencer, Charlie (NAVY) def. Badza, Benedict / Stoilkovski, Marko, 7-5
3. Gu, Aaron / Kim, Tommy (NAVY) def. Amadike, Yanozie / Jorquera, Kevin, 7-6 (7-5)
Singles (4-5-6-3-1-2)
1. Armbrister, Donte (HAMP) def. Kim, Jason, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
2. Amadike, Yanozie (HAMP) def. Kim, Tommy, 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (12-10)
3. Cutone, George (NAVY) def. Badza, Benedict,1-6, 6-0, 6-2
4. Spencer, Charlie (NAVY) def. Stoilkovski, Marko, 6-0, 6-0
5. Jorquera, Kevin (HAMP) def. Quattro, Zach, 7-5, 6-3
6. Buckingham, Graydon (NAVY) def. Arora, Aryan, 7-6 (7-1), 6-4
Hampton 0-3
Air Force 4, Navy 0
Doubles -- Air Force wins the doubles point
1. Garner, Luke / Young, Jake (NAVY) def. Brown, Jack / Kersten, Arjun, 6-4
2. Moore, AJ / Tingleaf, Langdon (AF) def. Legaspi, Herrick / Nguyen, Nathan, 7-6 (11-9)
3. Deaton, Phillip / Leaird, Tyler (AF) def. Ayinala, Aniketh / Etterbeek, J.J., 6-4
Singles
1. Nguyen, Nathan (NAVY) vs. Kersten, Arjun, 4-6, 6-4, 2-2, unfinished
2. Deaton, Phillip (AF) def. Young, Jake, 6-1, 6-3
3. Legaspi, Herrick (NAVY) vs. Fritzinger, Alec, 6-3, 4-6, 0-1, unfinished
4. Moore, AJ (AF) def. Garner, Luke, 6-2, 6-4
5. Staton, Matthew (AF) def. Ayinala, Aniketh, 6-3, 6-4
6. Etterbeek, J.J. (NAVY) vs. Tingleaf, Langdon, 4-6, 6-6, unfinished