Navy came extremely close to accomplishing that goal during Saturday morning’s match against 19th-ranked Oklahoma State. The Midshipmen were victorious at No. 1 doubles by tiebreaker and narrowly lost at No. 2, also by tiebreaker.
Oklahoma State had to dig deep to capture the lone doubles point and that proved deflating for Navy. The Cowboys then won three singles matches to dispatch the Midshipmen 4-0 in the opener of the North Carolina Regional, held at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.
It did not take long for Oklahoma State to take the lead in doubles as Mathieu Scaglia and Maxim Tybar dispatched Sasha Panyan and Gavin Segraves, 6-3, at No.