ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Aniketh Ayinala and Steve Nguyen accounted for a total of three points during a 5-2 victory by the Navy men's tennis team over Bucknell (11-10, 2-2), Saturday morning at the USNA Tennis Courts.  Additionally, Jason Kim and Ethan Garcia combined for a doubles victory and two singles wins to help the Mids (21-17, 4-1) to a 4-0 victory over Lafayette (4-8, 1-4), Saturday at the Leopard Courts in Easton, Pa.

Navy 5, Bucknell 2
Ayinala and Nguyen clinched the doubles point for the Mids against the Bison.  Navy's Herrick Legaspi and Charlie Spencer won a 6-1 victory over Oscar Bain and Brendan McDonald at No. 1 doubles in the first match to finish.  Bucknell bounced back with a win at the No. 2 flight as Adam Stavrakas and Amar Tahirovic defeated Tommy Kim and Jake Young by the score of 6-3.  That left Ayinala and Nguyen on the courts and the No. 3 pairing posted a 6-3 win over the team of Nelson Alapi and Will Robinson to make the score 1-0.

Tahirovic tied the match at 1-1 as he defeated Legaspi, 6-0, 6-1, at No. 1 singles in what was the only one of the six singles matches to be decided in straight sets.

Bain then recorded a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 win over Spencer at No. 3 singles to give the Bison a 2-1 lead.  The score would be tied at 2-2 when Tommy Kim's opponent at No. 4 singles, McDonald, retired with Kim leading, 6-7, 6-2, 3-0.  Nguyen gave the lead back to Navy when he defeated Alapi, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1, at No. 6 singles.  Ayinala secured the victory for Navy with his 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 win over Stavrakas at No. 2 singles.  Jake Young closed play with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Robinson at the No. 5 flight.

Navy 4, Lafayette 0
Navy edged Lafayette to narrowly win the doubles point.  Lachlan Buckingham and J.J. Etterbeek tallied a 7-5 win over Ricky Espaillat and Nick McKenzie at the No. 1 flight, then Garcia and Kim outlasted Sam Gelber and Jake Magnusson, 7-6 (7-1), to give Navy the lead.  

The remaining match at No. 3 doubles between Navy's George Cutone and Zachary Quattro and Lafayette's Darrin Lerner and Nik Martirossian was tied 6-6 (2-2) when it was halted.

Kim tallied Navy's first singles point and second team point of the day when his No. 3 opponent, McKenzie, retired after Kim won the first set by the score of 6-0.  Cutone followed with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Lerner at No. 2 singles to make the score 3-0. Play concluded when Garcia defeated Martirossian, 7-5, 6-0, at No. 5 singles.

Up Next
Navy will be back on the USNA Tennis Courts Sunday for a 9 a.m. match against Colgate and a 12:30 p.m. match against Howard.

Navy 5, Bucknell 2
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (1-2-3)
1. Legaspi, Herrick / Spencer, Charlie (N) def. Bain, Oscar / McDonald, Brendan, 6-1
2. Stavrakas, Adam / Tahirovic, Amar (B) def. Kim, Tommy / Young, Jake, 6-3
3. Ayinala, Aniketh / Nguyen, Steve (N) def. Alapi, Nelson / Robinson, Will, 6-3
Singles (1-3-4-6-2-5)
1. Tahirovic, Amar (B) def. Legaspi, Herrick, 6-0, 6-1
2. Ayinala, Aniketh (N) def. Stavrakas, Adam, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
3. Bain, Oscar (B) def. Spencer, Charlie, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
4. Kim, Tommy (N) def. McDonald, Brendan, 6-7, 6-2, 3-0, retired
5. Young, Jake (N) def. Robinson, Will, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
6. Nguyen, Steve (N) def. Alapi, Nelson, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1

Navy 4, Lafayette 0
Doubles -- Navy wins the doubles point (1-2)
1. Buckingham, Lachlan / Etterbeek, J.J. (N) def. Espaillat, Ricky / McKenzie, Nick, 7-5
2. Garcia, Ethan / Kim, Jason (N) def. Gelber, Sam / Magnusson, Jake, 7-6 (7-1)
3. Lerner, Darrin / Martirossian, Nik (L) vs. Cutone, George / Quattro, Zachary, 6-6 (2-2), unfinished
Singles (3-2-5)
1. Espaillat, Ricky (L) vs. Etterbeek, J.J., 7-6 (7-5), 0-3, unfinished
2. Cutone, George (N) def. Lerner, Darrin, 6-3, 6-1
3. Kim, Jason (N) def. McKenzie, Nick, 6-0, retired
4. Dickens, John (L) vs. Buckingham, Lachlan, 7-5, 2-1, unfinished
5. Garcia, Ethan (N) def. Martirossian, Nik, 7-5, 6-0
6. Magnusson, Jake (L) vs. Quattro, Zachary, 6-4, 1-6, unfinished