In the second period, Starr assisted on both Crimson goals, which were scored by Ward and Julie Sasner.
The two teams traded off goals in the final stanza, as Sasner tallied at 4:59, making her the only Cantab to score twice on the night.
Not, however, the only one who should have scored twice.
Ward had a goal disallowed by the officials, a quickly preview of the following afternoon, when Starr had one called back as well.
"You go a whole season and have may be one disallowed goal," Dooley said. "We had one called on us each day--it's unbelievable.
Nevertheless, the outcome of Friday's game wasn't affected by the call as Harvard skated off safely with the 5-3 decision. The Crimson wasn't so lucky the next afternoon.
Freshman Karen Carney put the Cantabs on top first, at 1:35 of the opening period, teaming up with Simmons on the goal.
Colby goals by Captain Anne Boatright and Tanya Mead, the latter setting off the barrage of oranges, gave the White Mules a 2-1 lead that they refused to relinquish well into the third period.
However, with only five minutes remaining in the game, Simmons drove the puck past Colby netminder Susan Edwards, with Carney assisting.
"It was really exciting, because then we played in overtime," Simmons said.
But when neither team had scored after the first overtime period, the game was called as a 2-2 tie.
All the more frustrating, of course, because of Starr's earlier disallowed goal.
"One official had pointed it as a goal; the other guy, who was off the angle, disallowed it," Dooley explained. "I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't think it had gone into the net."
The questionable call may have contributed to the Crimson tie, but the team wasn't complaining.
Although Simmons admitted that "ties are unsatisfying," the Crimson was happy to have a weekend road trip end without a loss.