"I think that our whole team worked really hard," said freshman attacker Melissa Christino. "We drove for every ball and played a great game. Things just didn't come together for us as nicely as we had hoped, and Princeton was just a very talented team."

Saturday's loss was the second consecutive decisive loss for the Crimson. Harvard's last match resulted in a disappointing 21-3 loss to No. 1 Maryland in Cambridge last Sunday.

Harvard, which has ten freshmen on a 26-player roster, has struggled all season to find some sort of chemistry to answer their scoring woes.

"Our team is just very young." Frisbie said. "We don't have a very consistent lineup, and we really haven't been able to click yet as a team. Our offense is basically composed of a lot of freshmen, which makes it hard for us to work together. We just haven't learned yet how to score as a team."

"The midfield has been our struggle, and we've been working hard on it all year," Brown said. "We're going to focus on it until we get it right."

The Crimson's next challenge will come when it travels to Dartmouth on Wednesday afternoon.

"Dartmouth will be a good game because they're pretty strong," Brown said. "It should be a decent match-up for both teams."

Harvard fans must simply hope that history will not repeat itself for the Crimson lacrosse team this week.