CANTON, N.Y.--Sometimes, a loss can be just what the doctor ordered.
After dropping a heartbreaker to No.1 Dartmouth a few weeks ago in Hanover, the Harvard women's hockey team swept past Cornell (3-6-0, 3-6-0 ECAC), 3-1, on Saturday, and then conquered No.4 St. Lawrence (7-3-2, 6-1-1 ECAC), 2-1, on Sunday. The victories extended the No.5 Crimson's overall and ECAC winning streak to six games.
In the six games after the loss to the Big Green, Harvard (8-3-0, 8-1-0 ECAC) first crushed Boston College, Princeton and Yale before easily defeating the No.2 team in the nation, Brown. The Big Red was the next victim, and then the Saints, who were previously undefeated in the ECAC and were the only team to not fall to No. 1 Dartmouth. St. Lawrence tied the Big Green, 2-2, a week ago in Hanover.
Harvard 2, St. Lawrence 1
"They're not really an undefeated team, nor were we," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "We came in to today knowing that they had tied Dartmouth and beaten Brown, and that gave us more incentive."
With both teams matched up pretty evenly, it was Harvard's potent power play unit that made the difference. The Crimson came into Sunday's game with a respectable 17.6 percent success rate, which it only improved upon in the two wins.
"We've got a pretty good power play and a pretty good pair of hands out there," Stone said. "Sooner or later, things are bound to happen and go our way."
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