Prager had two in the frame, both from Streibel, and freshman Matt Hartopolis pushed the lead to six with only 27 seconds left in the half.

At the buzzer, it was 6-0 with 30 minutes still left to play.

"Everyone at the half just said that we needed to calm down and the goals would come," Primm said. "The focus was on execution."

After starting with a man advantage from a call against the Tiger's late in the second frame, the Crimson found the rhythm and the net, as junior attackman Dana Sprong connected for Harvard's first goal.

Working in front of the net in the Crimson's normal offense, which inverts the middies, Sprong got a pass from Primm on the left side and beat Tierney high.

Despite an unnecessary roughness penalty on sophomore James Christian at 8:19, junior defenseman Peter Zaremba cut the Tiger lead to four at 7:39 off a pass from senior midfielder David Winslow that cut across the Princeton defense and found Zaremba close on the left post.

Despite a re-energized attack, the Crimson could not surmount the early lead. After another Princeton goal from Matt Bailer, DeVries notched his first at 1:19. Prager answered with his fourth with less than a minute left in the third period, and Harvard was back where it started the stanza--six goals down.

In the fourth, the teams traded goals, but again, the final buzzer found the first half massacre the margin of error.