Once Harvard succumbed in the first doubles, the match was all wrapped up for the Quakers, but the most exciting contest of the day was still in progress.

In the third doubles, Meg Meyer and Leslie Miller captured the first set, squeaking by Maura Williams and Gwenn Light, 7-5, before dropping the second, 4-6. With the game score in the final set at six-all, the duo from Penn won a nine-point tiebreaker, 5-2, to win the contest and bring the match contest to 6-3.

In singles competition, only captain Ditzler and Pierpont recorded wins. Pierpont (number two) convincingly defeated Jan Berstein 3 and 4, while Ditzler blasted Bekki Lee, 6-1, 6-3, in the fifth slot.

Martha Roberts relinquished a one-set lead, losing to Zasloff, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0. Third seed Meyer surrendered to Silverstein, 6-2, 6-4. Both clad in light blue and white tennis dresses and sporting dark brown pony tails, spectators could barely tell the Quaker from the Crimson.

Number four, Sally Roberts, played what she described as "the most disastrous match of my entire career," falling to Williams, 6-3, 6-1. Miller fared little better, as Sue Silver (a transfer from Smith where she played number one on the tennis team) handed her a 6-1, 6-4 defeat.

Coach Peter Felske was disappointed by the loss, and said, "I certainly think that if we played tomorrow it would be a different story." He added that it was "time to go back to the drawing board."

"We just have to work a little harder," he concluded.