By SCOTT CHIUSANO

The mens tennis team kept its strong spring season going with a dominant 6-1 win over St. Johns on Wednesday afternoon. The victory marked the Reds third straight, with four wins in the last five matches. Cornell will face off against Buffalo this weekend in its final non-league match of the season, before kicking off the Ivy League season against Columbia on March 28.

Though the Red lost only one match of the day against the Red Storm on Wednesday, five of the singles matches went three sets. Senior Sam Fleck said that although the Red did not play as well as it had hoped, there were some important takeaways.

We actually didnt play too well in our match against St. Johns, he said. A positive that we will take is that we won a lot of very close matches.

Fleck won his No. 1 singles match in three tightly contested sets and then went on to win his No. 2 doubles match alongside sophomore Colin Sinclair. Sophomore Chris Vrabel was the only Red player to win his singles match in two sets.

There will be a lot of close matches in the Ivies this year, so it was definitely good preparation to play in tight situations under pressure, Fleck said. Hopefully we will use this experience in future matches.

According to Fleck, the Red looks to continue its recent successes as it heads into a home matchup with Buffalo on Sunday. Buffalo has taken on Ivy League competition four times so far this season and has failed to come away with a victory.

We are definitely confident coming into the match, as we have built up a lot of positive momentum over the past few weeks, Fleck said. However, we will certainly not be complacent as we have lost to this team before.

In fact, the Red has compiled an impressive 24-1 series lead over the Bulls, but Fleck just happened to be around for the lone loss. The defeat came on Jan. 19, 2014, with a Cornell team struggling to overcome injuries and falling by a close score of 4-3.

Fleck acknowledged that despite Buffalos struggles this season and the Reds overwhelming history of victories against them, the team is by no means complacent. They are still a good team thats perfectly capable of beating us if we dont show up, Fleck said.

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