Hench was first fouled trying to make a run into the offensive third. Junior defender Matt Edwards stepped up to take the indirect kick, and hit a short ball on the ground to Hench, who was making a hard run to the near post. The senior had clearly beaten his man and was pulled down only six yards from the net.

Hench converted the penalty to the lower left corner.

The Crimson appeared to be on the way to a rout when Lenicheck tallied his first goal in the 18th minute.

Montoy received the ball in the center of the box, 15 yards from goal. Montoy beat one man after faking a shot and dumped it off to Lenicheck on his left. The midfielder continued to move to his left, beat one man after faking a left-footed strike, put the ball back on his right foot and rocketed the ball past Quaker goalie Michael O'Connor.

Up 2-0 against a team that had lost six of its last seven games coming into Saturday's match, the Crimson should have been confident after one of their best starts all season. But in a scene familiar to Harvard soccer fans, the team hit the self-destruct button only minutes later.

In the 25th minute, the Quakers leveled the score with two goals in 24 seconds.

The first goal came when sophomore goalie Dan Mejias saved one shot from midfielder Michael McElwan, but could not grab a rebound shot by Quaker midfielder Nathan Kennedy. Mejias started the first game of his Harvard career after the Crimson's usual starting keeper, Meagher, suffered a concussion in a mid-week practice.