Schulte got the Crimson started off right, with the first goal of the game and Harvard came out very aggressively--physically outplaying the Minutemen for the entire first quarter.

But the game went south for the Crimson as the minutes passed by.

Harvard conceded 12 goals at the hands of eight different UMass players. "Before the tournament we really wanted to beat UMass, but obviously that was going to be really hard," Zollei said. "UMass was third in the nation last year, and they are probably one of the best teams on the East Coast. I was a little cautious of putting all the emphasis on this game."

Zollei was confident that the Crimson could play well against the Minutemen. But the sophomore knew that there was more to the tournament than this one game.

"If we lost to UMass, I did not want the team to feel really bad and to collapse," Zollei said. "Our main goal for the season was to go to Easterns, we could accomplish this in our other games."

The Crimson used the loss to its advantage as motivation.

"We just picked ourselves up and moved on," Elke said.

The Crimson was able to rebound from a few lackluster minutes of play in their game against Iona to push forward and grab the win.