With Blake's loss, Virginia clinched the match, and the budding comeback died. The loss was only Harvard's third of the season.
On Saturday, the Crimson had the chance to vindicate itself after the previous day's loss, and it came through with a 4-2 victory.
In the doubles matches, Blake and Majmudar, who had struggled the past two days, found their rhythm and pulled out a resounding 8-4 victory.
"This time, we played them aggressively and didn't let them get us on our heels," Blake said. "We rediscovered how we were playing together in the beginning of the season."
The heroics of the No. 1 pair were for naught as Passarella and Clark lost 8-6 at the No. 2 position and Doran and Swart, down two breaks early, folded 8-6 in the No. 3 spot.
For the third time in three days, it was left to the singles players to win the match. Doran continued his string of solid match play and turned in a 6-2, 6-4 win at No. 3. Majmudar scored next at No. 2, defeating Bengtsson 6-2, 6-4. Sophomore Andrew Styperek, filling the No. 6 slot, lost 6-4, 7-6(2) to Northwestern's Sahara, evening the team match score to 2-2.
As the singles came down to the wire, No. 4 Green sealed up his match against Nguyen 7-6 (9), 6-4, bringing the Crimson to within one match of victory.
Again, the burden fell on Blake at the No. 1 spot. Finding himself down a match point to Doug Bohaboy in the second set, Blake mounted a comeback to hold serve and went on to tie the match, 1-1.
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