The Binghamton men’s tennis team (2-10, 0-2 Mid-American Conference) failed to put an end to its losing skid on Saturday, dropping all seven points to 50th-ranked Cornell (6-5) at the Binghamton Tennis Center.

The Bearcats have now lost 10 consecutive matches and have not won since Jan. 24, when they defeated Marist and Bryant. During the stretch, BU has faced seven ranked opponents, capturing just eight total points against top talent. Despite these negative results, BU head coach Nick Zieziula remains positive in his first year at the helm of the program.

“We’ve got to work to remain positive, staying focused on what we can do in the present tense and not worry about the outcome,” Zieziula said according to a press release on bubearcats.com.

In their first home match of the season on Saturday, the Bearcats could not get anything started. They dropped two doubles points before losing all six singles matches. The duo of junior Sid Hazarika and senior Ismael Dinia, the MAC Doubles Team of the Week earlier this month, was unable to set the tone for the Bearcats in the first doubles match, dropping the set, 6-4.

Only two Bearcats were able to win a set on Saturday. Dinia won his first set after 13 games, taking the first, 7-6, before dropping the next two, 6-1, (13-11), to take the loss. Sophomore Frenk Kote won his first set as well, 6-3, before losing the next two 6-1, 6-3. This was a familiar result for Kote, who won the first 10 games of his match against Princeton last week before dropping the last two sets.

Sophomore Thomas Caputo, who sat out last week’s singles match with an ankle injury, remained sidelined against the Big Red. Sophomore Douglas Notaris — who filled in for Caputo — lost his match 6-0, 6-4.

“We came ready to compete today but we missed some key deuce points and break opportunities and then we didn’t do a good enough job of responding to that adversity,” Zieziula said, according to bubearcats.com.

The Bearcats are searching to get their groove back in time for their fast-approaching MAC schedule. Despite the down start to the season, Binghamton is far from out. The MAC tournament includes the top four members of the conference, with BU currently sitting in sixth place. And with three MAC matches left on the schedule, Binghamton has time to improve its standing.

Binghamton is set to travel to Queens on Friday to take on St. John’s at noon from the USTA National Tennis Center.