The 21st-ranked Navy squash team (15-7) will have a challenging open to the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (MASC) Championship, facing #5 Virginia (6-2) Saturday morning in the opener. The Mids and Cavaliers will square off at 11:00 am at Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pa. Just a handful of hours later, Navy will be tasked with playing #13 Franklin & Marshall (7-4) on its home courts - Mayser Squash Courts. Action is set for 4:00 pm.

The placement matches are set for Sunday at 10:00 am (3rd/4th), 12:00 pm (Championship) and 2:00 pm (5th/6th).

Eight players on the Navy roster have reached double-digit wins this season, including Wenqing Tang who stands atop Navy's wins leader board with an 19-3 record. He is looking to become only the 40th different player in school history to reach 20 wins in a season and just the fifth under head coach Tyler Osborne / Alexander Orr (23 wins / 2022-23), Matt Wang (22 / 2022-23), Henry Sparkman (21 / 2022-23) and Millen Randell (20 / 2022-23). He would also become the first Navy rookie to reach 20 wins since teammate Alexander Orr achieved it in 2022-23 with 23 wins.

Tighe Mullarkey, who has spent the majority of the season at the #6 position (7-6), and Michael Tierney Jr., who has played most of his matches at #8 (8-4), enter the weekend with matching 15-6 records.

Meanwhile, Matt Wang heads into the weekend with a 13-7 record as the Mids' #1 player. He owns a 68-48 career record which are the 14th-most wins by a Navy player. He needs 1 win to move into a tie for 12th alongside Colin Barry (2011-15) and Dylan Sweeney (2015-19) and 2 to become only the 12th player in school history to reach the 70-win milestone. He would be the first since Senen Ubina closed out his career in 2019 with a 77-33 record.

Also nearing a milestone is team captain Lucas Spiro who stands 57-53 over his 4 years. He is 2 wins shy of tying Brad Seidel (2007-11) for 25th on Navy's all-time wins list and 3 from becoming the 25th player in program history to reach 60 wins.

MASC Championship Schedule
Friday
6:30 pm / #5 Virginia (6-2) vs. #13 Franklin & Marshall (7-4) // Mayser Squash Courts
6:30 pm /  #7 Drexel (6-4) vs. Dickinson (3-14) // Lancaster Country Day School

Saturday
11:00 am / #20 MIT (6-7) vs. Dickinson // Mayser Squash Courts
11:00 am / Virginia vs. #21 Navy (15-7) // Lancaster Country Day School
4:00 pm / Franklin & Marshall vs. Navy // Mayser Squash Courts
4:00 pm / Drexel vs. MIT // Lancaster Country Day School

Sunday
10:00 am / 3rd/4th Place // Lancaster Country Day School
12:00 pm / Championship // Mayser Squash Courts
2:00 pm / 5th/6th Place // Lancaster Country Day School

How to Follow
• Live scoring links will be available on the Navy Athletics website (squash schedule page) and via Club Locker.
• Fans can also watch a live video stream of matches played at Mayser Squash Courts ONLY with links available on the Navy Athletics website.

Navy's Projected Lineup
Player (Yr / Hometown / 2024-25 record / career record)
1 |  Matt Wang (Sr / Malvern, Pa. / 13-7 / 68-48)
2 |  Wenqing Tang (Fr / Villanova, Pa. / 19-3 / 19-3)
3 |  Alexander Orr (Jr / Haverford, Pa. / 13-7 / 53-30)
4 |  Matthew Kang (So / Malvern, Pa. / 8-9 / 21-22)
5 |  Lucas Spiro (Sr / Buffalo, N.Y. / 12-8 / 57-53)
6 |  Tighe Mullarkey (So, Jr / Locust Valley, N.Y. / 15-6 / 43-20)
7 |  Ramsay Killinger (So / Wyndmoor, Pa. / 13-7 / 31-18)
8 |  Avinash Uppuluri (Fr / Short Hills, N.J. / 2-0 / 2-0)
9 |  Michael Tierney Jr. (Fr / Berwyn, Pa. / 15-6 / 15-6)
EXH |  Eli Levy (Fr / Williamstown, Mass. / 9-3 / 9-3)
--- |  Sean Wu (So / Princeton, N.J. / 5-1 / 20-14)
--- |  Holden Woodward (So / Richmond, Va. / 5-0 / 8-25)
Inj |  Hudson Poirier (Fr / Wellesley, Mass. / 10-2 / 10-2)

About the Opponent
Virginia
• Meeting for the 18th time in series history, Navy owns a 10-7 series advantage
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Jan. 2, 2003 with Navy earning a 9-0 win at home
• Virginia played as a club team until 2017-18 when the program was elevated to varsity status
• Since the Cavaliers have played as a varsity program, they have won 7 of 8 matches against the Mids, including each of the last 7
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• The Cavaliers enter the MASC Championship with a 6-2 record, collecting wins over Columbia (6-3), Chatham (9-0), Harvard (5-4), Dartmouth (6-3), Dickinson (9-0) and Drexel (6-3). UVA's losses came in back-to-back matches against then-No. 2 Yale (7-2) and top-ranked Penn (8-1)
• Karim Elbarbary (Cairo, Egypt), a grad transfer from Princeton, owns a 3-4 record as the team's #1 player, while JP Tew (Jr / Cincinnati, Ohio) has a 4-3 overall mark, including a 3-3 record at the #2 position. JuanJose Torres Lara (Fr / Bogota, Colombia), meanwhile, has last just a single match this year (6-1) and is 4-1 at the #3 spot
• Torres Lara, Elbarbary and Tew competed in the Pool Trophy division of the National Collegiate Individual Championships Jan. 25-28 ... Elbarbary reached the quarterfinals before bowing out
• Dylan Moran, Max Velazquez and Nathan Rosenzweig compete the the Molloy Cup at the National Collegiate Individual Championships ... Moran went on to win the south bracket of the B-Division Molloy Cup

Franklin & Marshall
• The Mids and the Diplomats will meet for 66th time in series history with Navy holding a 38-27 advantage
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Jan. 6, 1968 with Navy earning a 9-0 win
• Outside of the COVID year, the two programs have met every year since 1999
• Saturday afternoon's match marks the 22nd meeting in Lancaster, Pa. between the two programs with Franklin & Marshall holding a 14-7 lead
• Franklin & Marshall has won 3 in a row against the Mids, including each of the last 3 matches played on the Diplomats' home court (8-1 on Jan. 29, 2020 / 5-4 on Feb. 4, 2022 at MASC Championship / 8-1 on Jan. 25, 2023) ... Navy's last win at F&M was a 9-0 decision on Feb. 11, 2018
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• The 13th-ranked Diplomats head into the weekend with a 7-4 record, capturing wins over MIT (8-1), Chatham (6-3), Dickinson (9-0), Haverford (9-0), Amherst (8-1), Middlebury (8-1) and Hobart (9-0). Their losses have been to top-ranked Penn (9-0), Drexel (8-1), Williams (5-4) and Rochester (5-4)
• Kyle Broadhurst (Jr / Pittsburgh, Pa.) owns a 7-4 record this weekend, including a 6-3 mark at the #1 position. Marco DiFilippo (Sr / Houston, Texas) is 7-6 this season and mans the #2 spot (4-4), while Sharan Punjabi (So / Mumbai, India) leads the team with a 10-4 mark, including a 5-2 record at #3

What's Ahead
• Navy returns home next Saturday to play its final regular-season match of the season, a home match against Chatham (1:00 pm)
• Navy will honor its two senior members - co-captain Lucas Spiro and Matt Wang

### Go Navy ###