After winning its first round match against Notre Dame on Saturday, the Harvard men's tennis team lost to Baylor yesterday in the second round of the NCAA Championships, ending its successful season with a 21-4 record.

The Crimson, ranked No. 19 in the nation, defeated No. 30 Notre Dame (17-7> on Saturday, 4-2, but then fell to No. 10 Baylor (22-3), 4-1.

The teams faced off at Indiana State, one of the 16 sites around the country that held the first and second round matches of this year's NCAAs.

For each of the 16 pools, one team is drawn from each quarter of the top 64 teams in the nation. No. 63 Indiana State was the other team in the Crimson's preliminary group.

The top performing team from each site will now travel to the University of Georgia and the Round of 16, which begins on May 22.

The Crimson had won nine straight matches entering the weekend, and had advanced to the Round of 16 in each of the past three seasons. Saturday's match would provide Harvard with its tenth straight victim.

Strong doubles play gave the Crimson its first point of the day. Doubles has been a key to the Crimson's strength all season, and when it captures the doubles point, Harvard usually takes the match.

Co-captain Kunj Majmudar and sophomore James Blake, currently the No. 3 doubles team in the country, took the first match, 8-6. Playing at Harvard's No. 2 position, junior Joe Green and sophomore Scott Clark won 8-6, and clinching the first point for the Crimson.

Singles play featured the premier No. 1 singles contest on the first day of the championships. Blake, the country's No. 1 singles player, faced Notre Dame's big gun, Ryan Sachire, the third ranked player in the country. In a back-and-forth, three set battle, Blake came out on top as he has for most of the season, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

The teams split the next three singles matches. At the No. 3 position, Majmudar lost, 6-3, 6-4; Clark lost 6-4, 6-0 in the No. 6 position; but at No. 6, Mike Passarella proved victorious, 6-4, 6-1.

With Harvard clinging to a 3-2 lead, the team's fate now lay in the hands of its own Irishmen, junior John Doran and Green, both natives of Dublin.

Playing at No. 2, Doran won the first set 6-3 and battled back from a 2-5 deficit in the second to force a tiebreaker, while countryman Green was up a set and locked at five games a piece in the second.

Green broke his opponent and won the twelfth game of the set to clinch the match and a berth in the second round, 6-3, 7-5.

With the match in the bag, Doran's, match was cancelled.

After a clean win and a short rest, the Crimson returned Sunday morning looking for an upset that was not to be.