The Crimson stormed out of the locker room ready to play. Buttles opened the scoring, on an assist by freshman midfielder Michael Baly to hand the Crimson its only lead of the day.
Princeton netted the next two goals before Watson bagged his man-up goal.
The Tigers again responded with a deuce, including the first offering from Prager widening the Princeton lead to 4-2.
At 14:23 of the second quarter Watson and DeVries combined for the first time for a strike. This time DeVries setup the junior for his seventh goal of the season.
"Early on, we basically possessed the ball," DeVries said. "[Princeton] didn't pressure us as much as other teams. We were moving the ball around and they couldn't slide fast enough to keep up with the second pass."
While DeVries wasn't pleased with the result, he extracted some small satisfaction from beating close friend Popham twice. Popham allowed four goals and made four saves in the second half, replacing starter Trevor Tierney.
Tierney stopped the Crimson five times while allowing four strikes.
Junior goaltender Keith Cynar had another busy day for Harvard. Cynar made 19 saves on the afternoon.
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