Box Score CLAREMONT, Calif. -
Warren Pham and
Matthew Robinson earned the doubles point with a tiebreaker win at No. 3, and
Advik Mareedu,
Tarm Rojanasoonthon and
Josh Kim rattled off straight-set singles wins, as the No. 1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's tennis team came away with a 4-3 win over No. 6 Middlebury on Tuesday at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center.
With the win, CMS is now 12-2 on the year, with 12 wins in a row since falling twice on opening day to a pair of Division II teams on Feb. 15. Middlebury falls to 4-2 on the year with the defeat.
Caleb Settles and
Brandon Vu came back from 4-3 down to win 6-4 at No. 2 doubles to level the doubles score at 1-1, and Pham and Robinson were able to provide the swing point in a tiebreaker for the second match in a row, after also doing the same thing against No. 3 Tufts on Sunday.
Mareedu then improved to 21-0 in singles on the year with a dominant 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 1 to give the Stags a 2-0 lead. Middlebury won a point at No. 2 behind Noah Laber's 6-4, 6-3 victory over Pham, but Rojanasoonthon finished off a dominant second set for a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 5 to put the Stags ahead 3-1.
Noah Lewis was able to battle Kim to a level score at 5-5, looking for a split. But Kim was able to take the final two games for the match clinch for a 6-2, 7-5 win. Robinson fought off two match points
With the team result decided, Middlebury won the last two points in pro-set tiebreakers in the third. Thehan Wijemanne won a 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 10-4 decision at No. 6 over
Anirudh Gupta, and Neel Epstein captured a 6-4, 6-7 (9-11), 11-9 win over Robinson, after Robinson fought off five match points in the tiebreakers to stay in it.
CMS will be back in action when it co-hosts the Stag-Hen Invitational on Friday and Saturday, opening with North Carolina Wesleyan on Friday at 10 a.m.