CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman Radina Dmitrova came back for a three-set win to lift the No. 68 Portland Pilots to a 4-3 victory over No. 72 Harvard Saturday at the Murr Center. The Pilots improve to 1-4 on the season will all four losses coming to top 50 opponents. The Crimson fall to 2-4 with three losses against ranked opposition.
With the match tied at 3-3, the deciding point came down to Dmitrova and Nikki Kallenberg at No. 2 singles. Kallenberg had won the first set 6-4 and was leading the second 5-2, but Dmitrova forced a tiebreaker and fought off match point to force a third set.