Harvard managed two good shots on net in the waning seconds but couldn’t beat netminder Brenda Reinen.

Stone was unhappy with the team’s lack of aggressiveness in the final minutes.

“We didn’t have anywhere near the jump we had yesterday,” Stone said. “It’s very disappointed to lose a game like that because your kids started standing around and watching.”

Corriero accounted for both Crimson goals with two great individual efforts. In the final minute of the opening period, the freshman took a pass from junior forward Tracy Catlin at center ice, skated down the left side of the ice and beat Reinen with a wrist shot to put Harvard up 1-0.

Later, in the ninth minute of the third period, Corriero beat two Gopher defenders into the zone and banked a shot off the back of the goalie to give Harvard a two goal lead.

Corriero viewed the heartbreaking loss as a learning experience for the young Crimson team.

“We know now that we can play up with the top teams,” Corriero said after the game. “But we also learned that no matter what the score is, you can’t stop playing until you hear the final buzzer.”

Minnesota-Duluth 8, Harvard 5

Minnesota-Duluth forward Maria Rooth tallied four goals to lead an offensive attack that was too much for the

Crimson, as the top-ranked Bulldogs (6-0-1) defeated Harvard 8-5 in a shootout Saturday.

Five different Crimson players netted goals as Harvard kept the game close well into the third period. With 12 minutes remaining in the game, Corriero pierced the UMD defense and slid a backhand past Bulldog goalie Patricia Sautter to bring the Crimson within one, 6-5.

However, four minutes later, Rooth completed the hat trick when she redirected a slap shot past Crimson senior goalie Alison Kuusisto to make the score 7-5. Rooth then picked up her fourth goal of the afternoon into an empty net in the final minute of the game to round out the scoring.

The first two periods were filled with back-and-forth play as the teams traded goals. The Bulldogs got on the board early as junior Joanne Eustice scored at 2:11 of the first period to give UMD a 1-0 advantage.

But the Crimson answered just 37 seconds later when junior forward Kalen Ingram took advantage of a Bulldog line change to find wide-open senior defenseman Jamie Hagerman, who knotted the score at one.