HARRISONBURG, Va. – Lan Mi and Valerie Ho won their respective singles matches on Sunday, but James Madison won the final two matches to reach completion to secure a 5-2 victory over the Cornell women's tennis team at East Campus Tennis Courts. The Big Red fell to 0-2 in dual matches.
 
James Madison (2-3) won the doubles point to start the day before the first three singles matches commenced. Two of those were over quickly, including Mi's 6-1, 6-2 victory from the #1 position, to leave the hosts ahead, 2-1. The third featured Katherine Nguyen, who battled back from a first-set loss to win the second in a tiebreaker.
 
While Nguyen and her opponent at #3 took to a third and deciding set, Ho rolled to a 6-1, 6-1 decision at #4 to tie match score at 2. Even after the Dukes won at #5 to pull back ahead and onto the brink of victory, Cornell had hope with Jenny Wong up a break in her first set at #6 when Nguyen went to yet another tiebreaker in the third set of her marathon match. But from there, James Madison pulled away to win both for a 5-2 final.
 
Up next for Cornell is the ECAC Indoor Championships, which it will host Friday through Sunday at Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
 

James Madison 5, Cornell 2

Sunday's results; Harrisonburg, Va.
Singles
1. Lan Mi (C) def. Natalia Nikolopoulou, 6-1, 6-2
2. Daria Afanasyeva (JMU) def. Maria Adiaconitei, 6-0, 6-0
3. Kylie Moulin (JMU) def. Katherine Nguyen, 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-6(5)
4. Valerie Ho (C) def. Lynelle Lim, 6-1, 6-1
5. Amanda Nord (JMU) def. Ashley Huang, 6-1, 7-5
6. Daniela Voloh (JMU) def. Jenny Wong, 7-5, 6-2 
Doubles
1. Michelle Los Arcos/Daniela Voloh (JMU) def. Adiaconitei/Wong, 6-3
2. Afanasyeva/Moulin (JMU) def. Ho/Alexandra Savu, 6-1
3. Fatima El Ashram/Nguyen (C) vs. Moulin/Nikolopoulou, DNF
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1), Singles (2,1,4,5,3,6)