Nine minutes later, Leschey swept down the right side of the ice and at the last moment tapped a pass across to freshman Karen Carney who had fallen in front of the net.
Nevertheless, Carney managed to work the puck past the outstretched Gilbert, upping the score to 4-1.
The final tally of the afternoon came at 15-11 when Ward knocked in her tenth of the year on assists from Starr and Landry.
"It was tremendous everyone is putting their games together," said Crimson goalie Tracy Kimmel.
Two of Harvard's previous losses had been to national powers the University of New Hampshire and two the astern.
"When you go out against the schools you can do things that sometimes it's harder to do in the lower-key games," explained Kimmel.
Saturday, the icewomen proved that they could translate the skills picked up from the "big guns" into Ivy I League victories.
THE NOIEBOOK: The Crimson returns to action Wednesday when it travels to highly touted Providence Ivy action doesn't resume until January.