Harvard defied a record-setting effort by the Big Green's Ashley Green, who nailed a Dartmouth school-record 35 kills en route to the defeat.

After losing its first three league games, Harvard has now clawed back into the middle ranks of the Ivy League with a respectable 2-3 record.

"We have better chemistry now than we did at the beginning of the year," Cebron said.

Next weekend, with the season nearing an end, the team returns to its Ivy League schedule away from Cambridge with visits to Yale and Brown.

Yale is currently tied with the Crimson at 2-3 in the Ivy, and Brown is the Ivy cellar-dweller with a 1-4 record. Those two games will close out the Ivy League regular season. Harvard will host the Ivy tournament in November after three non-conference games against Holy Cross, Sacred Heart and Marist.

Before that though, the road warriors hope to carry their recent momentum home on Tuesday, returning to the Malkin Athletic Center on to face Providence.

Providence, which plays in the tough Big East conference, is coming off a 3-2 win over conference foe Villanova, which improved the Friars' record to 16-9.