PHILADELPHIA – Junior Daniel Soyfer teamed with senior Jake Hansen to secure the doubles point at the No. 2 position, then won in a second-set tiebreaker at No. 3 singles to clinch the men's tennis team's 4-2 victory over Brown on Sunday morning in the fifth-place match of the ECAC Indoor Championships at Hecht Tennis Center.
 
Sophomores Alafia Ayeni and Eero Vasa started off with a 6-3 win at No. 1 doubles, then the Hansen/Soyfer tandem rattled off victories in the last four games at No. 2 to give the Big Red a 1-0 lead.
 
The teams split the opening sets of the six singles matches before junior Pietro Rimondini became the first to close out a match at No. 5. Kazkaov was close behind at No. 2 to push the Big Red's lead to 3-0, but Joseph McAllister's rally in the second set at No. 6 came up short to get Brown on the board.
 
Sophomore Evan Bynoe forced a third set in his match at No. 4 before his opponent pulled ahead for good. Ayeni also won the second set at No. 1, then was up a break in the third when Soyfer clinched the match in the tiebreaker in the second set at No. 3.
 
Cornell (3-5) returns to Ithaca to host dual matches for the first time this season, hosting Iowa at 11 a.m. Saturday before taking on Colgate at 3 p.m. to complete the doubleheader at Reis Tennis Center.
 

CORNELL 4, BROWN 2

At Hecht Tennis Center; Philadelphia, Pa.
Singles
1. Alafia Ayeni (C) vs. Peter Litsky, DNF
2. #101 Lev Kazakov (C) def. Ching Lam, 6-3, 6-2
3. Daniel Soyfer (C) def. Roger Chou, 6-4, 7-6(4)
4. Jacob Walker (B) def. Evan Bynoe, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
5. Pietro Rimondini (C) def. Charles Tan, 6-3, 6-4
6. Robert Siniakowicz (B) def. Joseph McAllister, 6-2, 7-5
Doubles
1. Ayeni/Eero Vasa (C) def. Chou/Tan, 6-3
2. Jake Hansen/Soyfer (C) def. Lam/Walker, 7-5
3. Ben Collier/Litsky (B) def. Kazakov/McAllister, 6-4
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2), Singles (5,2,4,6,3)