Schweitzer registered her ninth double-double of the season and fifth in six Ivy League games with 14 kills and 17 digs. Senior outside hitter Nathalie Miller recorded her second double-double of the weekend with 12 kills and 13 digs.

Penn 3, Harvard 2

Harvard dropped the fifth and most important match 15-7 bringing a disappointing end to what had been an impressive performance turned in by the Crimson against Penn (30-17, 23-30, 31-33, 30-27, 15-7) on Friday night.

With the game score knotted up at one in the third frame, Harvard pulled off a last second rally to take a 2-1 lead in the match.

The Quakers (12-4, 5-0 Ivy) seemed to have the third game in hand as it grabbed a 29-27 lead. The Crimson stormed back, taking the next three points and the lead. Leading 32-31, Harvard freshman middle hitter Katie Turley-Molony ended a long rally with an emphatic kill to give the Crimson the game 33-31.

“I know that we all wanted [to win game three] so badly and the fans were great,” Gould said. “It was just amazing.”

Harvard held a 21-18 lead in the fourth game and appeared to be well on its way to closing out the match. However, an 8-2 Penn run gave the Quakers a 26-23 lead. After a timeout, the Crimson knotted the game at 27. But that was as close as Harvard would get to ending the match, as Penn took the next three points and the game, 30-27.

“We just let them creep up and we were too content with where we were,” Gould said.

The dramatic fourth game was followed up by a one-sided fifth game which saw the Quakers outkill and outblock the Crimson, 10-5 and 4-0, respectively.

Harvard came out strong out of the gate grabbing an early 9-8 lead on Penn in the first game. A 15-4 Quaker run snatched the momentum away from the Crimson, as Penn established its presence and ran away with the game. The Crimson was unable to respond to the charge and dropped the game 30-17.

“For some reason, we always start off really slowly,” Schweitzer said. “But we definitely felt like we could do much better and we knew that we could step it up.”

The second game started out close as well and stayed that way until Harvard forged some breathing room at 21-18. The Crimson benefited from three costly Penn errors and registered two huge blocks as it opened up a 26-19 lead en route to a 30-23 victory.

Schweitzer had a team-high 16 kills and 13 digs for her eighth double-double of the season. Miller also registered a double-double with 10 kills and 18 digs.

—Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu.