The most notable performance came from Fox, who earned a decision against the Penn’s Canaan Bethea, in a hard fought match that went to three overtime periods.

“He had already shown toughness against Princeton, and he just showed that grit again against Penn,” Ng said. “Going into triple overtime and being able to pull out a win like that is huge.”

HARVARD 3, LEHIGH 36

The Crimson headed to Lehigh (11-4, 7-1) on Sunday, rounding out the weekend with a third away match.

Preston put Harvard on the scoreboard with a hard fought victory over No. 20 Randy Cruz, taking the win 2-0.

“Preston had the match in control, and I think he made a mistake that caught him,” Weiss said. “He’s doing well and he did a good job this weekend but he knows that he’s not where he needs to be for the end of the year. But he has some time to figure that out.”

Harvard would not score again for the rest of the contest.

“I think that we have a young team right now,” Ng said. “We have a lot of injuries and starters who aren’t in the lineup, so we have a lot of freshman and sophomores who going out that aren’t used to being in that starting position. Its tough for them because they’re fighting as hard as they can, but it just takes time and experience.”

—Staff writer Jillian Dukes can be reached at jdukes01@college.harvard.edu