The Harvard men’s hockey team dug deep this weekend andfound some much-needed confidence, ending up with a home sweep of No. 9 Cornell and Colgate by scores of 4-3 and 6-1, respectively.

The pair of victories vaulted the Crimson (3-2-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) back into first place in the ECAC.

Considering Harvard’s circumstances going into the weekend, though, the result was nothing short of miraculous.

On Friday night, the Crimson was without the services of Hobey Baker Award candidate Dominic Moore because of his disqualification penalty against Dartmouth on Nov. 10.

Harvard was also without Aaron Kim and Brendan Bernakevitch, out all weekend due to injuries, and starting goaltender Will Crothers joined them on the sidelines battling an illness.

However, the Crimson rose to the occasion.

“I’m very, very proud and happy for our team,” Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni said. “We’ve gone through some adversity, but I knew we would respond. They didn’t let me down. This is a big four points for us. This helps us an awful lot in our league.”

“It’s just huge to sweep,” said freshman goalie Dov Grumet-Morris, who was outstanding in place of Crothers. “We had been talking all week that this was going to be a turning point.”

And while the Crimson had several heroes in its first home sweep since Jan. 5-6, 2001, none was bigger throughout the weekend than Grumet-Morris, whose confidence seemed to grow with every save. He had 43 between the two games.

“Dov did an exceptional job. To step in the way he did was very impressive,” Mazzoleni, who won his 250th career game against Colgate said.

Harvard 4, Cornell 3 (OT)

Those of you who went down to New Haven on Friday missed about as good a

hockey game as you’ll ever see.

With Cornell (5-1-0, 3-1-0 ECAC) leading 3-2 with under a minute to play,