Wallace led the team with seven kills, while Docter had seven digs for the Crimson. Kinsella finished with 16 assists.

According to Docter, there were many things that went wrong this weekend, and Harvard just couldn’t make things work.

“[The matches] were all relatively similar; it was just honestly a really off weekend for us, and I think there’s a lot of things that we talked about that we need to work on in practice,” Docter said. “So many little things were just not being executed the way that they should that the whole system just kind of fell apart.”

UCONN 3, HARVARD 0

After a thrilling first-set loss to UConn (8-6) in its first game of the New England Challenge, the Crimson could not recover, falling, 3-0, on Friday evening in Storrs, Conn.

In the first set, a block by Cooney tied the score at 25-25 before Connecticut’s senior outside hitter Mattison Quayle earned two straight kills to take the set for Connecticut, 27-25.

After the back-and-forth first set, Harvard couldn’t keep pace with the Huskies in the second and third frames.

The Crimson never had the lead in either of the last two sets and ended up falling, 27-25, 25-17, 25-10.

Docter had 12 kills and 10 digs for Harvard, and Kinsella had 14 assists.

Despite the three losses, the Crimson plans to use these games as learning experiences as it prepares for Ivy League play.

“[These teams] are comparable to some of the teams that we’re gonna be playing in the Ivy League,” Kinsella said. “We obviously lost all three, but we just had a good discussion with our team about learning from the losses and those intangible things that we’re going to work on in practice this week to prepare for Ivy League play next weekend.”

Harvard is back in action on Tuesday night in its last tune-up at New Hampshire before conference play begins on Friday night at Dartmouth.

—Staff writer Denny Purcell can be reached at dpurcell@college.harvard.edu.