"It should have been saved, somehow it just squeaked by me," Mejias said.

After playing a highly ranked Fairfield team tough for most of the game, the Crimson saw its lead become a deficit seemingly in no time.

"We stuck to our game plan," Buan said. "We had them on the ropes for 70 minutes, and then they got a lucky break at our end. Then they got another goal ten minutes later and that killed us."

Harvard failed to even the score in the game's final minutes, as it watched both the match, and, in all likelihood, its tournament hopes slip through its fingers.

The Crimson endured a 3-0 loss this weekend at Princeton, giving the team its third loss in the Ivy League effectively putting an end to any hopes of an Ivy League title. The team saw the Fairfield game as an opportunity to knock off a regional power and hopefully catch enough attention to gain a fairly good chance at one of the at-large tournament bids.

"We had a chance to raise some eyebrows today, but we just didn't do it," Buan said.

Instead Harvard finds itself in the difficult position of having to win the remainder of its games and receive help from other teams if it is to even have a small chance at making the tournament.

"We really needed to win this game," Mejias said. "This almost ends our chances for the tournament. We'd have to win the rest of our games and get lucky with other teams losing to even have a shot at it."