Just after time expired on another power play,junior Rob Millar threaded a pass to McCarthy fromthe left faceoff circle to the right. The captainroofed it for a 3-0 lead.
"Millar just gave me a perfect pass and Imanaged to put it home," McCarthy said.
Colgate poured on the offense in the last twoperiods, barraging Prestifilippo with a total of34 shots, most of them down low.
He made an improbable save in the second as helay prostrate out of the net and stretched hisbody across to glove a shot by Andy MacDonald.
"I thought for the last two periods we reallycarried the play," said Colgate Coach Don Vaughan."We just could not get one by [Prestifilippo]."
Despite the high shot totals, the Crimsondefense tightened on the penalty kill. Colgatewent just I-for-10 with the man advantage, onlytallying on junior Dan Wildfong's rebound shot at18:01 of the second.
Harvard killed a 1:35 two-man advantage in thefirst period, allowing just one shot on goal--ashot from the point which Prestifilippo easilykicked away.
"Special teams were a big part of thisweekend," said Vaughan. "We had a chance to getback in this one, and they did a great job killingit off."
Steve Moore added an empty net goal with 52seconds left to play.
At 19:34, freshman defenseman Cory Murphyscored a meaningless goal for Colgate to make thefinal score 4-2.
This was a wonderful weekend for Harvard. Ateam loaded with freshmen and sophomores withlittle to no playoff experience displayed heart incoming back from a third-period deficit, withstoodtwo late game assaults, all while capitalizing ona truly dangerous power play.
This type of play not only excited the bestcrowds of the year at Bright, but should keep themcoming back.
Thanks to some fortuitous bunches of the puckelsewhere in the league, the Crimson is seedednumber three and avoids an extra game thisThursday night.
"It's just a great feeling right now," Turcosaid. "Now we have to go down there and finish thejob."
Harvard is going to Lake Placid. Maybe theCrimson will make its own miracle on ice.