In doubles, Yeung and Hu went down on the second court, 8-4, but the other two matches were tightly contested. Beltrame and junior Christo Schultz fell just shy on court three, 8-7. In the heavyweight battle between No. 11 MacMaster and Nguyen and Columbia’s No. 12 Ashok Narayana and Max Schnur, the hosts came out just ahead, 8-7, and the Lions took the early 1-0 lead.

In singles, Harvard came out strong, winning the first set at the third, fourth, and fifth positions. But Beltrame was the first to go down, falling 6-2, 6-0 on court two. The rest of the five singles matches would go three sets each, but the Crimson didn’t come away with any victories.

Ball lost on the sixth court, 6-1, 5-7, 7-5, and then Chaudhuri fell at No. 3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, to officially give Columbia the four points it needed for victory. Steinroeder suffered defeat on the fourth court before the other two matches were stopped to give the Lions their 7-0 final margin.

“We lost a close doubles point,” Steinroeder said. “We fought very hard in singles and had a lot of close matches, but came up short in all of them.”

As the Crimson progresses through what promises to be a tightly contested Ivy schedule, it must learn to bounce back. Many matches are scheduled as weekend doubleheaders, and according to Steinroeder, the team needs to have a short memory if it falters in the first match.

“[The Cornell] match really showed our resiliency after losing [Saturday],” Steinroeder said. “We’ll have to use that same resiliency going forward with the rest of our season.”

—Staff writer Justin C. Wong can be reached at justin.wong@thecrimson.com.