HARRISON, N.Y. — The men's tennis team will compete in its final tuneup for Ivy League play when it travels to the New York metropolitan area for its annual showdown with St. John's. The match is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Lifetime Fitness.
 
Cornell (6-8) has won three of its last four matches, including a 7-0 sweep of Binghamton last Sunday at Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca. Junior Chris Vrabel won his team-leading seventh singles match of the season, and senior Stefan Vinti, junior Colin Sinclair and freshman David Volfson all recorded their sixth singles victory of the season. The doubles pairing of Sinclair and Volfson is now 6-2 from the No. 2 position this season, and Volfson continues to hold down an Intercollegiate Tennis Association national ranking of 107th in singles. The Big Red ranked 60th as a team last week.
 
St. John's is ranked 53rd and swept Army West Point and St. Francis Brooklyn in its last match action on March 5 to improve to 14-4. Lucas Hejhal and Daniel Skripnik hold down the top two singles position, and Hejhal and Vaidik Munshaw form the top doubles pairing which has been nationally ranked at time over the last couple years.
 
The Big Red is 15-1 all-time against St. John's, including a 4-1 victory over the Red Storm in the first round of the ECAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 12 at Penn's Hecht Tennis Center. Cornell won last year's regular-season match at Reis by a score of 6-1, though five of the six singles matches required a third set to declare a victor.