While the team may be proud of its play Saturday, no one was boasting after the tournament was over.

“It was sad to end the season on a low note because the team failed to win its home tournament,” Cho said.

Still, both the captain and her coach were happy with the fall season as a whole. Before its second-place finish this weekend, the team had won two tournaments during the fall slate of four contests.

“It’s easy to say you need to change a lot of things just because this tournament didn’t finish quite as you wanted it to,” Rhoads said. “But Penn is the only Ivy team to beat us in any tournament this fall. We have a winning record against every [Ivy]. It was a disappointing one day.”

In fact, Rhoads said he saw a silver lining in the lackluster finish to the fall campaign.

“I think it will affect us in a positive way,” he said. “When you have a finish that’s worse than what you expect, it can harm your confidence of course but it also tends to be fuel. My hope is that it provides fuel for them to keep working hard throughout the offseason.”

Cho backed up her coach’s sentiments.

“Some of us felt embarrassed about our scores today,” she said. “It will definitely be motivation in the future.”