Prestifilippo made 22 saves in his final Bright performance, keeping the high-powered Engineers in check except for Tapper's lone strike.

Doug Shepherd added an empty net goal at 19:26 to give the Engineers its margin of victory.

Harvard 3, Union 2

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Harvard must have cashed in all its luck vouchers on Friday. Whereas it couldn't buy a goal on Saturday, it rung up two relatively soft tallies against Union (8-22-1, 6-14-1) to win 3-2.

Or maybe it was just the good fortune of facing a freshman goalie making his second career start rather than a Hobey Baker candidate.

Freshman winger Brett Nowak snapped a 2-2 tie at 10:21 of the third period for the game-winner. He sent a shot from behind the left face-off circle--almost exactly from where Tapper scored the following night--over Union goalie Marc Wise's left shoulder.

It was Nowak's fifth goal of the season and first since Nov. 27 against Brown. Nowak has been struggling to find his offensive game ever since he left to play at the World Junior Championships in Sweden over Christmas break. At one time, he had been projected by the NHL's Central Scouting to go as high as 14th overall in this year's draft.

"I changed up how I prepared for games," Nowak said of his slump. "I just tried to keep my mind off of it. I tried to get the assists and the goal would just come."