The Tigers sudden team-wide increase in adrenaline and aggression allowed them to beat Harvard on the majority loose balls and cut downfield a step faster. For the first time this season, Gunther faced an offense capable of sustaining heavy pressure on the Harvard net.

She came through with the biggest clutch effort of the season. Not only did she break up every serve into the box and stop every routine strike, she reached the shots that appeared to be unreachable.

"You need that sometimes in a game like this, for someone to come up big," said Wheaton in reference to Gunther's performance.

The first major Princeton scoring chance came off the foot of Alex Fiore. From just a few yards to the left out of the goal, she tried to shoot right past Gunther, but the goalie dove right and stopped the ball dead.

Gunther would not get any rest. She had five more touches on the ball in the following minutes. The most harrowing was when she came out of the net and took a crossed ball right out from under the feet of Theresa Sherry, the Tiger's leading scorer. On the subsequent play she secured a loose bouncing ball in the box.

Then came the biggest save of the season.

Sherry, from inside the 18 on the left, drilled a ball marked for the upper right corner of the net. Gunther, 5'10, leapt high and to the right and tipped the ball over the crossbar.

"Our keeper today made one of the best saves I've seen all year," Wheaton said.