Finally coming to life, the Minutemen were able to create one golden opportunity in the form of a Seth Lilburn breakaway with three minutes left to play. Mejias, however, came well off his line to cut down the angle and force Lilburn to push his shot wide left.
Although UMass was finally beginning to pick up its pace of play, time expired before it could generate another scoring opportunity.
"Our problem was we didn't come out to play today," said UMass Head Coach Sam Koch. "This game was a wake-up call for us."
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And fortunately for Harvard, the alarm went off 45 minutes earlier, when there was still enough time to get a goal.