In the 79th minute, Westfall and co-captain Brooke McCarthy teamed up to finally give the Crimson some breathing room. On a free kick from midfield, McCarthy lofted the ball deep downfield, and it lay loose three yards out and to the right the net.

"[Brooke] did a great job clearing the ball--a fantastic job," Wheaton said.

As Westfall approached the ball to her right, Princeton keeper Jordan Rettig was in perfect position, leaving only the far left post open. She forced Westfall to make the most difficult shot possible.

But Westfall was capable of making that shot. On the approach from the left, she swung her foot around to the right side of the ball and struck it in the opposite direction of her trajectory.

Having put full force behind the ball, she fell over backwards. But as she hit the dirt, the ball hit the net just inside the left post. When Westfall stood up, her feet left the ground again, but this time she was leaping up and down in celebration.

Westfall gave the Crimson the insurance goal it had searched for all half. The shot silenced the previously rowdy crowd, and Harvard's two-goal lead was never threatened.

"It was a very good game," Gunther said. "I sort of found it amusing, all the hecklers in the back. The defense played awesome today, under a lot of pressure. This is such a big win. Now we're first in the Ivies. We were really pumped for this game. And luckily I came up big."