Cho, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, recovered from a first-round 79 to fire a pair of 73s.

“She had an illness at the beginning of the summer where she lost a bunch of weight and some strength, so she’s trying to get her distance back,” Rhoads noted.

Each of the Crimson golfers had her lowest-scoring round in her second time around the course.

“I was certainly proud of how they bounced back after quite an uncharacteristically high first round,” Rhoads said. “They did okay in the third round.”

Next up was rookie Fritzie Reuter, whose total of 237 put her in a tie for 32nd, and just one stroke behind was captain Mia Kabasakalis, who tied for 35th.

The team’s only senior, Kabasakalis agreed with her coach’s assessment of the squad’s difficulties in returning from a long and busy summer.

“We are maybe a little bit rustier than we were last year, and a little bit less prepared, and everybody else in the league played better than last year,” she said. “That set us back a lot, and so I think we need to use this as motivation...we can do better.”

Sophomore Katie Sylvan, the league’s top rookie last season, was the final Harvard finisher of the weekend, as she tied for 47th.

The Crimson now must regroup and prepare for next week’s Golfweek Conference Challenge in Vail, Colo., where it will come up against what is likely the strongest field it will face all year.

At last year’s competition the squad placed an impressive seventh out of 18 of the nation’s top teams, but it appears that Harvard will now need to make up some ground on teams within its own conference.

“It’s an unfamiliar territory for the team, but it’ll be good for them, to see how they respond,” Rhoads said.

—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu.