Again, the Crimson lost the doubles point, but not without a fight. With the doubles' score even at one, Stovell and Burroughs fell behind in the third set but broke their Mountaineer opponents' serve twice to force a tiebreaker.
West Virginia pulled out the match and won the doubles point as well as "a huge swing in momentum," according to Fish.
"We had to win four of the six singles matches," Fish said. "We kept going under the gun."
Harvard's collective blood pressure went up when Burroughs lost his singles match and Harvard went down, 2-0.
But Wallooppillai rebounded from a 5-2 first set deficit to win 7-6, 6-0 and Rueb and Chung won in straight sets to put Harvard in front, 3-2.
That left Meringoff and Laitala as the only ones playing. Both of them won their first sets and lost their second ones, but Meringoff polished off his opponent 6-2 in the third to win the team match.
With the match already decided, Laitala lost 6-3 in the third set for West Virginia's final point.
"The way the match went was just very amazing," Fish said.
Undefeated Harvard will play undefeated Yale here on Saturday.