With the four remaining matches having four holes to go, play resumed the next morning at dawn. Keyed by quality play all-around, Harvard kept up the momentum into Sunday, picking up the four matches necessary to clinch the win. Deng won his match 3&2, while junior Akash Mirchandani came out on top as well.

HARVARD 4, CORNELL 3

Although McCarthy’s eagle on the third hole at the Trump National Golf Course and birdie on the par three sixth jump-started the Crimson to an early lead Saturday morning, all he and the rest of his teammates could do was watch as Vinar lined up a six-foot putt on the 18th green.

With the match tied, 3-3, Vinar’s opponent converted a tricky up-and-down opportunity from a greenside bunker to put the pressure on Vinar, who had to two putt from 45 feet away to seal the victory for Harvard.

“I was on the far edge of the green, and I lagged [my first putt] up there to about five or six feet—I misread it,” Vinar said. “Everyone was gathered around the green and [my opponent] buried his 20-foot putt for par…. But I couldn’t worry about what my opponent was going to do…. I went through my routine and knocked it in for the win.”

“It was a really tight match,” Muphy said. “Most of the players were under par for their whole [round], even though we were playing match play.”