POTSDAM, N.Y.--The annual trip to the North Country is by far the worst of the year. After a seven-hour bus ride to the Canadian border, the Harvard men's hockey team then has the privilege of facing two of the premier teams in the ECAC in their own buildings.

But for the first time in four years, the Crimson did not get swept.

No. 13 Harvard (5-3-1, 4-2-1 ECAC) earned a satisfying split against Clarkson (4-4-3, 1-2-2) and St. Lawrence (3-5-3, 2-1-2) over the weekend. The Crimson bounced back from a tough 6-3 loss to the Saints on Friday to dispatch the Golden Knights, 3-1, at Cheel Arena on Saturday.

"It will be nice to have movies on the bus ride home for once after this trip," sophomore center Dominic Moore said. "Most of the guys on this team, including myself, didn't know what it meant to win up here."

Harvard once again relied upon the spectacular goaltending of senior Oli Jonas to keep it in the game through two periods against the Saints and to shut down the Golden Knights. Jonas made 77 saves on the weekend and earned the first star against Clarkson.

"[Our defensive statistics] are [good] because we have goaltending," Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni said Saturday. "He was very, very good [Friday] night and was good again tonight. He's the reason we're having a little bit of success right now."

Harvard 3, Clarkson 1

The last time Harvard won at Cheel Arena, captain Steve Moore was watching his older brother Mark '00 get wined and dined to become the first of the Moores to join the Harvard hockey family.