The 15th-ranked Navy squash team (21-3) will face the daunting task of meeting #6 Drexel (6-3) in the opening round of the 2026 Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (MASC) Championship held this weekend at the McArthur Squash Center in Charlottesville, Va. The Mids and Dragons will square off on Friday at 6:30 pm in what will be the first men's match of the tournament. Navy's second-round match will be Saturday at 11:00 am against #12 MIT (12-3).

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

MASC Championship Schedule
Friday
6:30 pm / #6 Drexel (6-3) vs. #15 Navy (21-3) // UVA - Front
6:30 pm /  #5 Virginia (10-3) vs. #25 Dickinson (8-9) // UVA - Back

Saturday
11:00 am / #12 MIT (12-3) vs. #15 Navy // UVA - Front
11:00 am / #19 Franklin & Marshall (10-7) vs. #25 Dickinson // UVA - Back
4:00 pm / #6 Drexel vs. #12 MIT // UVA - Back
4:00 pm / #5 Virginia vs.#19 Franklin & Marshall // UVA - Front

Sunday
10:00 am / 3rd/4th Place // UVA - Front
12:00 pm / Championship // UVA - Back
2:00 pm / 5th/6th Place // UVA - Back

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 each of the matches with links available on the Navy Athletics website and the Virginia Sports TV YouTube page.

Navy's Projected Lineup
Player (Yr / Hometown / 2025-26 record / career record)
1 |  Wenqing Tang (So / Villanova, Pa. / 21-2 / 45-6)
2 |  Christian Graziano (Fr / Greenwich, Conn. / 13-5 / 13-5) 
3 |  Alexander Orr (Sr / Haverford, Pa. / 17-3 / 71-38)
4 | Johan Hodgson (Fr / Riverside, Conn. / 10-1 / 10-1)
5 |  Matthew Kang (Jr / Malvern, Pa. / 14-5 / 35-32)
6 |  Avinash Uppuluri (So / Short Hills, N.J. / 17-4 / 20-8)
7 |  Michael Tierney Jr. (So / Berwyn, Pa. / 16-3 / 32-13)
8 |  Ramsay Killinger (Jr / Wyndmoor, Pa. / 17-3 / 49-25)
9 |  Eli Levy (So / Williamstown, Mass. / 8-0 / 17-4)
-- |  Hudson Poirier (So / Wellesley, Mass. / 9-0 / 19-2)
-- | Turner Wolf (Fr / Bronxville, N.Y. / 9-2 / 9-2)
-- |  Tighe Mullarkey (Jr / Locust Valley, N.Y. / 1-0 / 46-23)
-- |  Sean Wu (Jr / Princeton, N.J. / 8-0 / 28-15)
-- |  Holden Woodward (Jr / Richmond, Va. / 6-0 / 14-26)
INJ |  Andrew Ko (Fr / Sykesville, Md. / 12-6 / 12-6)

Milestone Watch
• Team captain Alexander Orr (71-38) stands 13th on Navy's all-time wins leader board and is just one win shy of tying former teammate Matt Wang (72 / 2021-25) for 12th on the list. 
• With a 49-25 record over the last three seasons, Ramsay Killinger needs just one more victory to become the 40th player in program history to reach 50 wins. 
• This year's Navy squad became the 12th in the program's 78-year history to reach the 20-win milestone when it defeated Franklin & Marshall 6-3 on Feb. 4. It's the first time a Navy team has won 20 matches since 2016-17 when the Mids finished the year 20-6. 
• With 21 wins to date, it's the most wins by a Navy team since the 2015-16 team finished the year 21-10
• Navy has not won more than 21 matches since the 2012-13 squad closed out its year with a 25-9 record

Osborne Reaches 100
• Eighth-year Navy head coach Tyler Osborne earned his 100th collegiate victory on Dec. 7 with the 7-2 win over Rochester.
• Osborne, who became the seventh head coach in program history in the summer of 2018, is fourth Navy squash coach to reach the century mark in the wins column, joining Craig Dawson (365-154 / 2001-18), Dave Brown (267-117 / 1982-96) and Art Potter (267-62 / 1951-77).
• Osborne owns a 106-84 (.558) record heading into the MASC Championship.

About the Opponents
Drexel
• Drexel and Navy are meeting for the 19th time with the Dragons holding an 13-5 advantage in the series
• Navy won the first 5 matches, while Drexel has won 13 in a row
• Navy's last win in the series was at the CSA Team Championship on Feb. 16, 2014, when the Mids edged the Dragons 5-4
• This will be the third time the two teams have met at the MASC Championship with previous meetings in 2022 (Drexel, 9-0) and '24 (Drexel, 9-0)
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• Drexel enters the tournament with a 6-3 record that features wins over Franklin & Marshall (8-1), Dickinson (9-0), Chatham (8-0), Princeton (6-3), Cornell (6-3) and Virginia (6-3). Its three losses have been against Yale (5-4), Columbia (7-2) and Cornell (6-3).

MIT
• Saturday match will mark the 66th meeting between MIT and Navy with the Mids leading the series 56-9
• The series dates back to Feb. 11, 1949 when Navy scored a 9-0 win over the Engineers in Annapolis
• Navy won 55-consecutive matches against MIT before the Engineers earned their first win in the series in 2019 (6-3)
• MIT has won nine of the last 10 matches with Navy last earning a win against the Engineers by way of a 5-4 decision on Nov. 8, 2024 in Annapolis
• the two schools have met four times at the MASC Championship with previous meetings in 2020 (MIT 5-4), 2023 (MIT 7-2), 2024 (MIT 6-3) and 2025 (MIT 2025)
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• MIT heads into the weekend with a 12-3 record and wins in each of its last four matches
• The Engineers' losses this season have been to Harvard (8-1), Tufts (7-2) and Yale (9-0)

Recapping the 2025 MASC Championship
The 20th-ranked Navy squash team (16-9) closed out a grueling weekend of action with a fourth-place finish at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championship hosted by Franklin & Marshall. The Mids played 3 matches in the span of 24 hours, including facing the #5-ranked Virginia Cavaliers (8-3) in Saturday's opener. UVA dealt Navy a 9-0 loss before the Mids came back to upset 15th-ranked Franklin & Marshall (7-6) 5-4 on the Diplomats' home court. Navy closed out the weekend on Sunday morning where the Mids simply ran thin on fuel in a hard-fought 7-2 loss to #19 MIT (8-8).

Virginia 9, Navy 0
1 | Karim Elbarbary (V) def Matt Wang (N) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-6
2 | John Paul Tew (V) def Wenqing Tang (N) // 11-4, 11-8, 11-5
3 | Dylan Moran (V) def Alexander Orr (N) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-3
4 | Maxwell Velazquez (V) def Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-7, 11-3, 11-5
5 | Francis Hajek (V) def Avinash Uppuluri (N) // 11-4, 11-5, 11-1
6 | CJ Baldini (V) def Michael Tierney Jr. (N) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-1
7 | Isaac Mitchell (V) def Eli Levy (N) // 11-3, 11-4, 11-6
8 | Patrick Keller (V) def Sean Wu (N) // 11-5, 11-2, 11-3
9 | Charles Braff (V) def Holden Woodward (N) // 11-3, 11-2, 11-5

Navy 5, Franklin & Marshall 4
1 | Matt Wang (N) def Kyle Broadhurst (FM) // 11-8, 11-7, 1-11, 11-9
2 | Wenqing Tang (N) def Sharan Punjabi (FM) // 11-9, 6-11, 11-9, 11-5
3 | Alexander Orr (N) def Marco DiFilippo (FM) // 11-8, 11-4, 11-8
4 | Jordan Sprecher (FM) def Matthew Kang (N) // 11-6, 11-2, 11-7
5 | Aditya Chandani (FM) def Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-5, 11-8, 11-5
6 | Tighe Mullarkey (N) def Alexander Arader (FM) // 5-11, 11-9, 11-7, 14-12
7 | Samuel Freed (FM) def Ramsay Killinger (N) // 11-4, 11-9, 11-6
8 | Noah Katzer (FM) def Avinash Uppuluri (N) // 11-8, 11-9, 11-8
9 | Michael Tierney Jr. (N) def Evann Tan (FM) // 11-8, 11-6, 11-3
EXH | Eli Levy (N) def Hunarpal Kohli (FM) // 11-8, 11-5, 11-3

MIT 7, Navy 2
1 | Matt Wang (N) def Kyle Broadhurst (MIT) // 11-7, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8
2 | Wenqing Tang (N) def Sharan Punjabi (MIT) // 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-3
3 | John Gunton (MIT) def Alexander Orr (N) // 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 11-4
4 | Sean-Winston Luo (MIT) def Matthew Kang (N) // 12-10, 11-6, 11-9
5 | Robert Albani (MIT) def Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-8, 14-12, 7-11, 12-10
6 | Mitav Nayak (MIT) def Tighe Mullarkey (N) // 2-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7
7 | Zachary Starr (MIT) def Ramsay Killinger (N) // 11-6, 11-6, 11-1
8 | Collin Wen (MIT) def Avinash Uppuluri (N) // 9-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-6
9 | Lars Barkman (MIT) def Michael Tierney Jr. (N) // 15-13, 3-11, 12-10, 12-10
EXH | Eli Levy (N) def Stephen Shin (MIT) // 11-6, 11-6, 11-8

What's Ahead
• Navy will have the next two weeks to prepare for the CSA Team Divisional Championships Feb. 27-March 1 at the Specter Center in Philadelphia, Pa.


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