PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The Cornell men's tennis team kept pace with Ivy League leader Columbia with a 5-2 road win over No. 47 Penn on Sunday afternoon at the Hamlin/Hecht Tennis Center. The win improved the Big Red to 14-6 (4-1 Ivy) and kept it a game behind the Lions in the conference standings.

After picking up the doubles point with 6-2 and 6-3 wins at the bottom two spots in the lineup to get the Big Red rolling, Cornell won three matches in straight sets at No. 1, 2 and 6 - surrendering just 10 total points in the three matches. Nathan Mao claimed a dominant 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 6 to give Cornell a 2-0 lead, and after the Quakers took a win at No. 5, Papoe and Sinha delivered the victory.

The 52nd-ranked Papoe improved to 19-7 on the season with a 6-2, 6-2 triumph over Manfredi Graziani at the top spot, while Sinha blanked Tal Goodman in the first set en route to a 6-0, 6-4 triumph to clinch the win. Jack McCarthy earned the 10-point tiebreaker win in the third set at No. 3 singles to add another point onto the Big Red's tally.

Cornell will close the regular season on the road when it visits Dartmouth on Saturday, April 19 at 1 p.m., then meets No. 16 Harvard on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. in an Easter matinee that could have Ivy title implications.