As Harvard's fearsome top line wove through the offensive zone Saturday night to bombard helpless Dartmouth goaltender Meghan Cahill as though it were a shooting drill, it triggered something much more special than the red light.

Rather, it sparked a roar from the crowd that echoed all the way from Providence to Cambridge.

Not just any crowd, mind you, this one was filled with students.

The H-Club brought the Crimson Crazies, making the Club's first visible hockey appearance since Midnight Madness back in October.

The Brothers of Sigma Chi, like a true fraternity, kept pounding the glass to the left of the Crimson bench.

Of course, the irrepressible Harvard band drowned out the Brown PA system with our school's ancient fight songs.

Throughout the game, the host of students obnoxiously and mercilessly rained the chant of "Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!" at Cahill as co-captain A.J. Mleczko polished off the 17th hat trick of her career.

And yesterday, when Mleczko lofted the puck over sprawled UNH netminder Alicia Roberts for the ECAC Championship, she had more than just her teammates to celebrate with, if in considerably smaller numbers than the previous evening.

The exuberance was enough to make an old alum smile--and there were quite of few of them there as well.