A final miscue put the game out of reach. Sheperd knocked the puck off a Harvard stick in the defensive zone, and the puck came to sophomore forward Brad Tapper, who buried it inside the far post.

"We weren't good with the puck tonight," Tomassoni said. "Throughout the series we were excellent, but tonight it hurt us."

Junior goaltender Joel Laing, who stopped 39 shots, made sure the Crimson never came back and stopped a flurry of Harvard shots in the final four minutes, including a couple bombs on a Crimson power play awarded with just over two minutes remaining.

"We were right there in the game up until the last minutes," Jonas said. "RPI was more focused at the end, and we ran into the best goaltender in the league."

Junior defenseman Matt Scorsune bagged Harvard's last goal of the season at 16:07 of the second period.

With both teams skating four apiece, sophomore forward Harry Schwefel fought through an RPI hold to keep control of the puck and hit Scorsune at the top of the right faceoff circle. Scorsune blasted it through Laing.

"After getting the tying goal late in the second, we all felt really good about ourselves," Adams said. "We kept waiting for the breaks to come, but it didn't come."