CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second-straight season, the Big Red men's tennis team defeated Harvard, 4-3, this evening at the Murr Center Courts in Cambridge, Mass. With the win, its third straight, the Big Red improved to 18-4 overall and 1-0 in the Ivy League. The Crimson, on the other hand, had a four-match winning streak snapped as it slipped to 11-8 overall (0-1 Ivy).

Harvard got off to an early 1-0 lead, picking up the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3, but Andy Gauthier evened the match at 1-1 with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Aba Omodele-Lucien at No. 2 singles.

Wins by No. 5 Casey MacMaster and No. 3 Alistair Felton over Evan Bernstein and Mirza Klis, respectively, put the Crimson up, 3-1, but the Big Red fought back with three straight victories to take the 4-3 triumph.

The comeback began when No. 1 Jonathan Jaklitsch defeated Jonathan Pearlman and No. 4 Jeremy Feldman downed Andy Nguyen in a three-set thriller.

Evan McElwain then sealed the win for the Big Red with a three set victory of his own, defeating Joshua Tchan at the No. 6 spot, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

The Big Red is back in action tomorrow as it travels to Hanover, N.H., to take on the Big Green at the Boss Tennis Center at 2 p.m.


No. 49 Cornell def. No. 70 Harvard; 4-3
Doubles
1. Omodele-Lucien/MacMaster (HAR) def. Gauthier/Feldman (COR); 8-5
2. Jaklitsch/Bernstein (COR) def. Felton/Nguyen (HAR); 8-4
3. Tchan/Pearlman (HAR) def. Klis/McElwain (COR); 8-6

Singles
1. Jaklitsch (COR) def. Pearlman (HAR); 7-6(2), 6-0
2. Gauthier (COR) def. Omodele-Lucien (HAR); 6-3, 6-2
3. Felton (HAR) def. Klis (COR); 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
4. Feldman (COR) def. Nguyen (HAR); 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
5. MacMaster (HAR) def. Bernstein (COR); 6-4, 6-4
6. McElwain (COR) def. Tchan (HAR); 7-5, 4-6, 6-3