"We had excellent positional play," Tomassoni said. "Our high guy didn't give in on rushes and they didn't have any room to create out there."

Jonas compensated for the rare defensive lapse. The sophomore surprised all but his teammates with his exceptional play substituting for the Prestifilippo.

Over the final ten minutes, he made a few spectacular saves, including one on an RPI power play with just under five minutes remaining. Jonas stopped a slapshot from the left point, but the rebound popped right to the waiting stick of junior Steve Caley on the other side of the net.

Caley hesitated for one moment, allowing Jonas to dive and just glove the puck away from the open net

The only RPI goal--a wrist shot from the top of the goal crease by junior forward Keith Dupee at 1:23 of the third--came on a furious sequence where Jonas had already made a few great saves, including one on Dupee from point blank range.

"I was a little nervous out there, but really settled in after a couple of minutes," Jonas said. "I tried to be aggressive on my saves, and I got a little lucky too."

Harvard jumped out to its 1-0 lead early in the game. Junior forward Scott Turco pushed the puck off a face-off to the left of Laing forward. Allman fought to the puck and roofed the shot at 5:00 of the first.