The Harvard fencing team quaked before Penn’s point this weekend, with both the men’s and women’s squads dropping matches to the Quakers.

The Crimson women (16-5, 1-2 Ivy) also fell to No. 10 Temple while garnering wins over Haverford and Rutgers.

Penn improved to 12-2 after its four wins in Weightman Gymnasium, including the Quakers’ 19-8 victory over the Crimson.

“We beat Penn last year, so it was a little disappointing to lose to them this year,” co-captain Ellen Schulz said.

Harvard dropped an 8-1 decision in sabre and a 7-2 loss in epee, while capturing a 5-4 win in foil.

“For women’s sabre, it was harder than we expected,” sophomore Eunice Yi said. “We had a really tough time against UPenn and Temple.”

Against Temple, the Crimson turned in a 17-10 loss.

“Temple usually has a strong team,” Schulz said. “Their sabre in particular was very strong. They don’t really have any individuals who stick out, but overall, they have a very deep team.”

Harvard earned a 25-2 victory against Haverford and picked up another 15-12 win over Rutgers.

“They were just all very different teams with strengths in different areas,” Schulz said. “For instance, Rutgers had an extremely tough epee squad, but we were able to overpower their other squads. Penn and Temple were strong across the board in all three weapons.”

The foil squad finished the day undefeated, having bested all four teams.

Within that squad, sophomore Liz Blase dropped only one bout against Penn to finish with an 11-1 record.

The Crimson played without co-captain Nicole Jarrett due to ankle injuries, which could be a problem in future competition.

“For [the Harvard-Yale-Princeton matches], I think not having Emily [Katz] and Nicole [Jarrett] will affect us as Princeton and Yale always have very good foil squads,” Schulz said.

While foil may be hurting, sabre has been coming through with individual efforts.