CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Senior Sam Fleck and sophomore Chris Vrabel each won singles matches, but the men's tennis dropped a marathon match against Princeton in the quarterfinals of the ECAC Indoor Championships on Saturday morning at Harvard.
 
Fifth-seeded and 63rd-ranked Cornell (3-4) started the day strong, winning the doubles point. Bernardo Casares Rosa and Vrabel teamed up to win at the No. 1 spot, 6-4, then Stefan Vinti and Quoc-Daniel Nguyen clinched the opening point with a 7-5 decision at No. 3.
 
Vrabel extended the Big Red's lead to 2-0 with a straight-set victory at No. 5 against nationally-ranked Luke Gamble, finishing the match by dominating a second-set tiebreaker. But just six minutes later, Princeton surged by a 3-2 margin by finishing up victories at positions 1, 4 and 6.
 
The final two matches required a third set, and each went to a tiebreaker. Fleck rallied from one set down against Alex Day at the No. 3 position. He took the second set, 6-4, then outlasted Day in the third-set tiebreaker, 7-6(6), to knot the match at 3. Fourth-seeded and 57th-ranked Princeton (6-0) later locked up the match in a third-set tiebreaker at the No. 2 spot.
 
Due to the blizzard in the metro Boston area, Cornell's backdraw match against Yale has been canceled.
 
No. 57 PRINCETON 4, No. 63 CORNELL 0
Saturday's results; at Cambridge, Mass.
Doubles
1. Casares Rosa/Vrabel (C) def. Colautti/Gamble, 6-4
2. Fleck/Sinclair (C) vs. McCourt/Tso, 5-5 (DNF)
3. Nguyen/Vinti (C) def. Day/Yablon, 7-5
Singles
1. Zack McCourt (P) def. Stefan Vinti, 6-3, 6-4
2. Tom Colautti (P) def. Bernardo Casares Rosa, 3-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(1)
3. Sam Fleck (C) def. Alex Day, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(6)
4. Josh Yablon (P) def. Colin Sinclair, 6-4, 7-5
5. Chris Vrabel (C) def. #105 Luke Gamble, 6-3, 7-6(3)
6. Kial Kaiser (P) def. Quoc-Daniel Nguyen, 6-4, 7-6(1)
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3), Singles (5,1,4,6,3,2)