And the good times just keep on rolling.

And rolling.

And rolling.

And rolling...into the back of the net, yet again.

The men of Harvard soccer have suddenly put their scoring boots on, and Dartmouth and Brown had better take notice.

Sunday's 4-1 win at Princeton was the Crimson's second consecutive Ivy League blowout by that same scoreline--Yale being the first victim--and with the conference race its for the winning, Harvard is looking mighty dangerous.

"Our spirits are so high right now," sophomore Kevin Silva said after notching two goals and an assist on the day. "We're very confident--we know we can beat anybody the way we're playing right now."

What a triumphant contrast to the sour mood of the early season, when huff and puff as it might, the Crimson attack just couldn't blow anything past the big, bad opposing goalie.

Even when it was scoring during a 1-6-0 beginning to the season, the Harvard (4-7-1, 4-1-0 Ivy) goals were coming from dead-ball situations: corner kicks and free kicks, mostly. But all four goals against Princeton (5-5-1, 2-2-0 Ivy) came in the flow of play, patient build-ups sparking good attacks and, more often than not, provoking solid finishing.

"Before the Yale game, Coach [Stephen] Locker gave us the approach that we were going to start our season from scratch, and everything has been entirely different since then," Silva said.

Silva, last week's Ivy League men's soccer Player of the Week and Harvard Athlete of the Week, for his own part has brought a relaxed attitude to the table that has paid off in spades--he now is second on the Crimson with 11 points (five goals and the one assist).

"I don't think anymore, 'I gotta score, I gotta score,'" Silva said. "Now it's stuff like thinking about playing good defense, and I guess the goals have come when instinct takes over."

It was Silva who opened the scoring in the 29th minute, but credit senior Steve Gaffney with a great through-ball to the flanking sophomore.

Tiger keeper Stuart Reynolds had no chance at the left-side shot, and just like that Harvard had scored the all-important first goal.

That opened the floodgates, the Harvard passing game clicking to control the midfield as it truly has all season.