Men's Squash | 2/6/2022 6:56:00 PM

THE BASICS:

- Scores:
No. 9 UVA – 9, No. 16 MIT - 1
No. 16 MIT - 6, N0. 24 Dickinson - 3
No. 16 MIT - 5, No. 14 – Franklin & Marshall - 4

- Location: Lancaster, PA (Franklin & Marshall)  

- The Lead:  The MIT men's squash finished the MASC Championships with a 2-1 record as the Engineers defeated Dickinson and hosts Franklin & Marshall but lost to the University of Virginia to secure a third-place finish.

HOW IT HAPPENED – Match One vs. UVA:

-  The Cavaliers held off the Engineers, winning seven of the nine matches in three sets.

-  First-year Tom Hogan (Malvern, Pa.) claimed the lone win for MIT, defeating Cullen Little by a score of 11-8, 11-7, 7-11, 11-4

- Sophomore Collin Wen (Short Hills, N.J.) took CJ Baldini to four sets but fell 11-8, 9-11, 11-4, 13-11.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED – Match Two vs. Dickinson:

-  After dropping matches in the top-two slots, Hogan grabbed a four-set win (10-12, 11-4, 11-3, 11-9) over Mark Naguib.

- The Engineers then swept courts 5-9 to seal the win with Wen, junior Matt McManus (Philadelphia, Pa.), senior Keith Lamp (Short Hills, N.J.), and first-year Saechow Yap (Pepper Pike, Ohio) all winning in straight sets.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED – Match Three vs. F&M:

- Senior Aman Sanger (New York, N.Y.) took a win in the first spot with a 7-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-4 win over Petr Nohel, and Hogan took a four-set win over Teddy Eill in the third spot (11-7, 9-11, 11-7, 11-5.

- Graduate student Bill Wu (Eagleville, Pa.) and sophomore Nikhil Kakarla (Philadelphia, Pa.) took wins in the fifth and sixth spots, both winning in four sets.

- Lamp won his match in the ninth spot with a straight-set win (11-8, 11-6, 11-4).  
 

UP NEXT:
- The Engineers are back in action on Thursday, February 10 as they take on Tufts for a 6 p.m. contest in Medford.


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