Nowak made sure of that, as he and Packard came down the ice once again on a two-on-one. Nowak’s initial offering was turned away to the corner, but he simply outhustled everyone else on the ice to get the rebound. Once it was on his stick, he brought it back out front and promptly blasted it by Lefevre to make it a 4-1 lead 14:37 into the period.

Nowak’s tally was his second on the weekend, tying him with Pettit for the team lead in goals and running his point total to 10, also tops for Harvard.

At that point, Colgate Coach Don Vaughan went to his bench and substitutedsophomore David Cann for Lefevre. Unfortunately for the Raiders, it didn’t help much.

The Crimson would score twice in the final frame, both courtesy of Harvard blue-liners.

After taking a pinpoint pass from Cavanagh in the neutral zone, Welch stormed toward the Raider goal, burying the puck over Cann’s shoulder for a 5-1 Crimson advantage with 4:27 to play.

The goal was Welch’s third on the season, best among both Harvard’s freshmen and defensemen.

Sophomore Dave McCulloch capped the scoring with a blast from the point through a nice screen by Liam McCarthy with under two minutes to play. The power play goal— Harvard’s only such score on the night— was assisted by

freshman Andrew Lederman, his second of the game.

Vaughan declined to comment following the game.