The No. 2 Harvard women's hockey team will ride its longest winning streak of the season into the first round of the ECAC Tournament.

The Crimson (20-4-3, 17-4-3 ECAC), which has won its last six games, breezed past Ivy League rivals Princeton and Yale in the final weekend of the regular season. Harvard beat the Elis in New Haven, 5-1, after blanking the Tigers in Princeton, 6-0.

"We are pretty excited about where we are right now," said freshman winger Kalen Ingram, who had a goal and three assists on the road trip. "All three lines were scoring for us, and that is going to be key to winning in the playoffs."

No. 1 Brown (21-3-3, 19-2-3), Harvard's travel partner, also swept the Tigers and the Bulldogs to stay in first place.

Harvard will have the No. 2 seed in the ECAC tournament, and it will host a one-game quarterfinal against No. 7 seed St. Lawrence (18-13-1, 11-11-1 before yesterday's game at No. 4 New Hampshire) this weekend at Bright Hockey Center. If the Crimson defeats the Saints, it would advance to the semifinals at Brown's Meehan Auditorium the following Saturday.

As the regular season champion, Brown is assured of a berth in the American Women's College Hockey Alliance national championship tournament at Matthews Arena in Boston.

No. 6 Minnesota-Duluth (25-3-3, 21-1-2 WCHA) beat No. 3 Minnesota Saturday in the WCHA championship game and locked up an automatic bid to the AWCHA Tournament. A third bid will go the winner of the ECAC Tournament, and the final team to qualify will be decided by a selection committee.

Harvard 5, Yale 1