The 15th-ranked Navy squash team (17-3) dropped a 6-3 decision to #11 Tufts (8-4) Sunday afternoon in what marked the Mids' first home loss of the 2025-26 season. An extremely competitive match between the two programs, four of Navy's losses went into extra games, including two that were decided in five.

Match Highlights
• Navy secured wins at #1, #4 and #9
• Wenqing Tang (So / Villanova, Pa.) earned a hard-fought win at #1, edging Tufts' Santiago Medina in four games. Each of the four games was decided by the necessary two points, as Tang posted an 11-9, 11-9, 10-12, 11-9 victory. He is now 17-0 on the year and has won 21-consecutive matches dating back to last season. 
• Johan Hodgson (Fr / Riverside, Conn.) earned a convincing win over Milo Freidman, sweeping the sophomore 11-7, 14-12, 1-19
• Ramsay Killinger (Jr / Wyndmoor, Pa.) inched closer towards the 50-win milestone for his career (47-24) as he picked up a sweep of his own at #9. Killinger dealt Tufts junior Rutva Samant an 11-8, 11-9, 12-10 loss. Killinger needs just three wins to become the 40th player in program history to reach 50 wins.
• Team captain Alexander Orr (Sr / Haverford, Pa.) and Michael Tierney Jr. (So / Berwyn, Pa.) played magnificent matches against their respective foes and had match balls, but came up short in five games. Orr, playing #3, fell to senior Rohan Valia, 8-11, 11-8, 10-12, 13-11, 11-3, while Tierney Jr. dropped his match at #8 to senior Shivin Kumar 4-11, 11-6, 7-11, 14-12, 11-9.
• Christian Graziano (Fr / Greenwich, Conn.) dropped hi match in four games to junior Nachiket Desai at #2, while Matthew Kang (Jr / Malvern, Pa.) also came up short in four games to freshman Khaled Serag in four.

What's Ahead
• Navy will be off from team competition until Jan. 29 (at Haverford / 6:00 pm), however, Wenqing Tang will represent Navy at the College Squash Association National Collegiate Individual Championship held Jan. 23-27 in New York City.

Tufts 6, Navy 3
1 | Wenqing Tang (N) def Santiago Medina (T) // 11-9, 11-9, 10-12, 11-9
2 | Nachiket Desai (T) def Christian Graziano (N) // 11-6, 13-11, 5-11, 11-5
3 | Rohan Valia (T) def Alexander Orr (N) // 8-11, 11-8, 10-12, 13-11, 11-3
4 | Johan Hodgson (N) def Milo Freidman (T) // 11-7, 14-12, 11-9
5 | Khaled Serag (T) def Matthew Kang (N) // 7-11, 11-8, 11-8, 12-10
6 | Jared Chin (T) def Avinash Uppuluri (N) // 12-10, 11-5, 11-3
7 | Mustafa Ayaz (T) def Andrew Ko (N) // 11-7, 12-10, 11-3
8 | Shivin Kumar (T) def Michael Tierney Jr. (N) // 4-11, 11-6, 7-11, 14-12, 11-9
9 | Ramsay Killinger (N) def Rutva Samant (T) // 11-8, 11-9, 12-10
EXH | Rohan Bhatia (T) def Turner Wolf (N) // 2-11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-3, 11-8

### Go Navy ###