Both Tachibana and Jania’s first sets went into a tiebreaker. On the No. 1 court, Tachibana dropped the first set, 7-6(4) before losing the second, 6-1. But Jania kept Harvard one point ahead by taking a 7-6(3), 6-3 decision over Okuda at the No. 3 spot.

Gridley, at the No. 5 position, and Whelan, playing on the No. 6 court, went into three sets each.

Having lost the first set, 6-1, Gridley came back to take the second set by the same score, but the Big Green’s Sabrina Stewart won the final set, 7-6(4), to tie up the team score.

The match came down to Whelan’s matchup against Decker-Sadowski. Whelan lost the first set, 1-6, but won the next two, 7-5, 7-5, to clinch the team win for the Crimson.

“Everybody just fought so hard, and I was really proud of Whelan for pulling that out for us at the end,” Norton said.

The match put winning bookends on Harvard’s spring season and was the last competition for its lone senior, Gridley.

“I think that everybody wanted to win not only for us but also for me because it was my last match as a senior,” Gridley said. “Everybody just fought so hard. And it was kind of emotional at the end, but I was so glad that we were able to pull it out and end the season on a high note like that.”

—Staff writer Taryn I. Kurcz can be reached at tkurcz@college.harvard.edu.