Harvard put a little distance between itself and the rest of the ECAC with the sweep. Ivy League rules forbid a team from playing during exam period so it has played more games than the rest of the conference. The Engineers have three games in hand over Harvard, but the Crimson now has a six-point lead. It now is ahead of second-place Vermont by four points in the ECAC, but the Catamounts do have four games in hand.

The Crimson will try to add to its winning streak next weekend with games at Princeton and Yale. Harvard swept this road weekend last year.

Harvard 5, No. 12 RPI 2

As Dominic Moore was warming up before the game, he felt that he had a little something special in the tank.

"I felt especially accurate in warm-ups today," Moore said. "I was not only seeing the target well, but also where I wanted to hit it."

Moore scored three straight goals for the natural hat trick to erase a 1-0 deficit and to make it a relatively easy night for the Crimson over one of the nation's best teams in front of a sellout crowd at Bright. All of them came on extremely precise shots.

He opened the onslaught at 14:51 of the first period, collecting a rebound from freshman winger Tim Petit just above the crease. Moore backhanded the shot midway-high, just inside the far post past Engineer goal Nathan Marsters.

He finished turning the trick with a pair of goals, less than two minutes apart, early in the second period--both on the power play.