ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy (8-6) men's tennis team registered a 6-1 victory over Saint Joseph's (3-7) at the Tose Family Tennis Center in Annapolis and lost a 7-0 decision to NJIT (3-0) at the Naimoli Family Athletic & Recreation Center in Newark, N.J., on Friday.  

Navy vs. Saint Joseph's
Three Mids won a pair of matches against the Hawks.  The match began with Navy sweeping all three doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead.  The first match to finish was at the No. 3 flight where Aniketh Ayinala and Steve Nguyen defeated Jakob Gaudreau and Sehaj Pawar by the score of 6-1.  George Cutone and Tommy Kim then combined for a 6-3 victory at the No. 2 flight over Othman Bezzaz and Ernesto Ruy.  Jason Kim and Charlie Spencer defeated Damir Abdusamadov and Santiago Valle, 6-4, at No. 1 doubles in the last match left on the courts.

Jason Kim made the score 2-0 when he posted a 6-1, 6-2 win over Pawar at No. 5 singles.  The score became 3-0 when Cutone defeated Ruy, 6-2, 6-2, at the No. 3 flight.  Aniketh Ayinala tallied the match-clinching fourth team point when he won his No. 2 match against Abdusamadov by the score of 6-2, 6-2.

Navy's remaining two points were won by Nguyen as he posted a 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9) over Bezzaz at No. 4 singles and Tommy Kim with a 2-6, 6-0, 7-6 (7-5) victory at the No. 6 flight against Gaudreau.

Navy vs. NJIT
The Highlanders, who with today's result raised their record to 40-10 since the start of the 2023-24 season, won two of the three doubles matches against Navy.  The lone win for the Mids came at the No. 2 flight where Herrick Legaspi and Jake Young defeated Riccardo Campagnola and Maxime Hankins by the score of 7-5.

NJIT then won five of the six singles matches in straight sets.

Up Next
Navy will play host to Hampton (9 a.m.) and Villanova (noon) Saturday in Annapolis.

Navy 6, Saint Joseph's 1
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (3-2-1)
1. Kim, Jason / Spencer, Charlie (NAVY) def. Abdusamadov, Damir / Valle, Santiago, 6-4
2. Cutone, George / Kim, Tommy (NAVY) def. Bezzaz, Othman / Ruy, Ernesto, 6-3
3. Ayinala, Aniketh / Nguyen, Steve (NAVY) def. Gaudreau, Jakob / Pawar, Sehaj, 6-1
Singles (5-3-2-1-4-6)
1. Valle, Santiago (SJU) def. Spencer, Charlie, 7-5, 6-4
2. Ayinala, Aniketh (NAVY) def. Abdusamadov, Damir, 6-2, 6-2
3. Cutone, George (NAVY) def. Ruy, Ernesto, 6-4, 6-3
4. Nguyen, Steve (NAVY) def. Bezzaz, Othman, 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9)
5. Kim, Jason (NAVY) def. Pawar, Sehaj, 6-1, 6-2
6. Kim, Tommy (NAVY) def. Gaudreau, Jakob, 2-6, 6-0, 7-6 (7-5)
Saint Joseph's 3-7

NJIT 7, Navy 0
Doubles -- NJIT wins the doubles point (3-1-2)
1. Fukuhara, Soma / Jenkins, Wil (NJIT) def. Buckingham, Lachlan / Garcia, Ethan, 6-2
2. Legaspi, Herrick / Young, Jake (NAVY) def. Campagnola, Riccardo / Hankins, Maxime, 7-5
3. Risan, Severin / Skorjanc, Nejc (NJIT) def. Etterbeek, J.J. / Quattro, Zachary, 6-1
Singles (1-4-3-2-5-6)
1. Jenkins, Wil (NJIT) def. Young, Jake, 6-1, 6-4
2. Fukuhara, Soma (NJIT) def. Legaspi, Herrick, 0-6, 6-3, 7-6
3. Campagnola, Riccardo (NJIT) def. Buckingham, Lachlan, 6-3, 6-1
4. Bakhtiyar, Yerassyl (NJIT) def. Etterbeek, J.J., 6-0, 6-2
5. Hankins, Maxime (NJIT) def. Garcia, Ethan, 6-1, 6-4
6. Sorin, Tom (NJIT) def. Quattro, Zachary, 6-1, 7-5