CLAREMONT, Calif. - The top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's tennis team prevailed in a tiebreaker for the doubles point, and fought off a tough challenge from No. 33 Caltech for a 7-0 win on Saturday at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center. 

With the win, CMS now stands at 19-2 on the season, including 19-0 since opening day when it played without a full line-up and fell 4-3 to a pair of Division II teams (Concordia, Point Loma), as well as 2-0 in the SCIAC. Caltech slips to 7-2 and 0-1 in league play with the loss. 

Advik Mareedu and Josh Kim were able to win 7-6 (7-3) at No. 1 doubles, coming back after facing a 5-1 deficit to force the tiebreaker. The Stags dropped the first doubles match at No. 2, but Warren Pham and Matthew Robinson were able to hold on for a tight 6-4 win at No. 3 to level doubles at one apiece, and Mareedu and Kim's comeback was able to give CMS the 1-0 lead going into singles. 

Caleb Settles started off singles with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 6 to give the Stags a 2-0 lead, and Kim rolled to a 6-0-, 6-2 win at No. 4. Robinson then earned the clinch with a 6-3, 6-2  at No. 3, and Tarm Rojanasoonthon captured a 6-3, 7-5 win at No. 5 to make the score 5-0. 

Mareedu and Pham had battles at the top two lines, with Mareedu going to three sets for the first time in a dual this season, before prevailing 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 to improve to 26-0 in singles. Pham then won an epic second-set tiebreaker for the final point of the match, winning 6-1, 7-6 (11-9) at No. 2. 

CMS will be back in action on Friday when it travels to Redlands, before returning home to face Occidental and Hope International on Saturday.