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Team USA concluded pool play at the 2016 World Junior Men’s Team Championship by winning Pool F with victories over Malaysia and Spain Saturday at Enjoy Squash in Bielso-Biala, Poland.
The sixth-seeded U.S. took on seventh-seeded Malaysia first on Saturday morning. U.S. junior champion Andrew Douglas opened the match against recently-crowned individual world champion Eain Yow Ng, and pushed the top seed to five games, 11-6, 6-11, 8-11, 14-12, 8-11 in forty-nine minutes.
Spencer Lovejoy then leveled the match at 1-1, with a four-game victory against Ong Sai Hung in the No. 2 spot. Sam Scherl sealed Team USA’s second pool play victory with a three-game victory at the No. 3 spot against Farez Mohd Izwan.
The final pool play match against nineteenth-seeded Spain saw a different lineup with Douglas resting and Gabriel Morgan slotting in at the No. 3 spot.
Lovejoy, Scherl and Morgan all clinically sealed the pool F victory with three, three-game victories against Spain Saturday afternoon.
With the pool F victory, the U.S. advances to the 1-12 playoffs where they face twelfth-seeded Jordan on Sunday. Team USA’s match against Jordan is streaming live Sunday at 6pm local time, 12pm ET, on the World Juniors live stream.
[6] USA 2-1 [7] Malaysia
Andrew Douglas 2-3 Eain Yow Ng 11-6, 6-11, 8-11, 14-12, 8-11 (49m)
Spencer Lovejoy 3-1 Ong Sai Hung 7-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-6 (39m)
Samuel Scherl 3-0 Farez Mohd Izwan 11-6, 11-4, 11-4 (28m)
[6] USA 3-0 [19] Spain
Spencer Lovejoy 3-0 Nilo Vidal 11-2, 11-6, 11-3 (23m)
Samel Scherl 3-0 Enrique Garcia 11-7, 11-2, 12-10 (27m)
Gabriel Morgan 3-0 Jesus Gallardo 11-3, 11-4, 11-4 (20m)
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