Shumway picked up the loose ball and quickly deposited it into the net.
"It helps that [Shumway] was in the midfield," freshman attacker Amy DiMarzio said. "She definitely helped getting the ball up the line."
The score remained the same until halftime, without any really major scoring threats by either team.
"The first half went fairly well," Caples said. "We really put a lot of pressure on them."
Getting a lead, however, is one thing. Holding on to it is something completely different.
Throughout the second half, the Elis were hell-bent on putting the ball between the posts.
And with each attack the Bulldogs came closer and closer to doing that.
"In the second half we made a few mistakes," Caples said. "We need to finish the plays off... We sat back and tried to protect the lead."
The climax of Yale's offense came with only six minutes left in the game.
Yale got a corner, and tried to shove the ball past Milhollin. Somehow, however, it got stuck under the Harvard goaltender, which meant that the Elis got to take a penalty stroke.
So the referee put the ball at essentially point-blank range from Milhollin, and gave a chosen Bulldog one shot to tie the game.
The attacker tried to lift it towards the left corner. Milhollin dove and could not reach it.
In anticipation of the tie, the Yale bench began to put its hands up in glee. Until the ball began to fall again, and each Eli noticed that it would fall harmlessly behind the goal.
It seemed that someone upstairs was smiling on the Crimson.
"It feels good to beat Yale," a happy Milhollin said.
Sure, the game was extremely close. But hey, a win is a win.
"We still have a lot to work on," DiMarzio said. "[But] it's a lift for us, definitely."