Perhaps it brought with it some leftover offense from The Stadium, because the band's noisy entrance not only ignited the crowd of more than 100 spectators, but seemingly the Crimson, as well.

Four seconds after the band began its rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard," Barker beat UMass goalie Todd Larson for the Crimson's first tally since a Bruce Burkley goal three minutes before haltime had tied the game at 2-2.

Forty-four seconds after the band's arrival, Marshall regained the shooting touch that earned him first-team All-Ivy honors, scoring a goal that cut the UMass lead to two.

A Crimson offense that had appeared as anemic through the first 26 minutes of the match as that of the Harvard football team through its first seven games, was suddenly coming to life.

But the water polo team's was a short-lived resurrection. Harvard could not convert two UMass turnovers on successive Minutemen possessions in the match's final minute, even with the support of the band.

The Minutemen held on for the victory that earned them the right to be trounced by Brown in yesterday's championship match, 12-8.

Senior Sayonara

Yesterday's farewell match for the Crimson's senior quarter of Kyle Enright, Tom Killian, Burkley and Marshall was not the Harvard-Brown matchup campus-wide flyers and a quarter-page Crimson advertisement had been touting. Instead, it was Harvard trying to "go out in style," as Burkley put it, with a win over Boston College.

When Hafferty removed his seniors with two minutes to play, that much had been accomplished.