ITHACA, N.Y. — With five of singles matches going to a third set, the 52nd-ranked men's tennis team came out on top of a 6-1 decision against St. John's on Wednesday at Reis Tennis Center. The victory pushes the Big Red to 7-5 on the season.
 
The Big Red started the day by winning the doubles point for a fourth consecutive match. Just as in last weekend's sweep of Binghamton, the top two pairings rendered the No. 3 match irrelevant by winning convincingly. Senior Sam Fleck teamed with sophomore Colin Sinclair to win 6-2 at the No. 2 position, and sophomores Bernardo Casares Rosa and Chris Vrabel took down the nation's 49th-ranked doubles team, Lucas Hehjal and Vaidik Munshaw, by a 6-3 margin in the No. 1 match.
 
A wild back-and-forth singles session ensued, with the only straight-set victory belonging to Vrabel at the No. 5 position to provide Cornell with a 2-0 lead. All of the other matches featured at least 10 games in the first set, St. John's winning three of them with a seventh game. The decisive third sets were also down to the wire, with the Big Red's top three — Fleck, junior Stefan Vinti and Casares Rosa — winning by either 7-5 or 7-6 margins. Like Fleck, sophomore Dylan Brown fought off a first-set loss to rally for a victory three sets at the No. 6 spot.
 
The Big Red improved to 15-1 all-time against St. John's, including a perfect 4-0 record in the tenure of Silviu Tanasoiu, the Director of Intercollegiate Tennis and Savitt-Weiss Head Coach of Men's Tennis.
 
#52 CORNELL 6, ST. JOHN'S 1
Wednesday's results; at Reis Tennis Center; Ithaca, N.Y.
Singles
1. Sam Fleck (C) def. Lucas Hejhal, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6
2. Stefan Vinti (C) def. Robert Livi, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
3. Bernardo Casares Rosa (C) def. Erick Reyes, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5
4. Elio Livi (SJ) def. Colin Sinclair, 7-5, 6-7, 6-3
5. Chris Vrabel (C) def. Vaidik Munshaw, 6-4, 6-0
6. Dylan Brown (C) def. Michael-John Every, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
Doubles
1. Casares Rosa/Vrabel (C) def. #49 Hejhal/Munshaw, 6-3
2. Fleck/Sinclair (C) def. R.J. Del Nunzio/Reyes, 6-2
3. Quoc-Daniel Nguyen/Vinti (C) vs. Every/R. Livi, (DNF)
Records: Cornell 7-5, St. John's 4-7