The Friars ended a five-game winless streak with the shutout victory.

The Crimson is not a team accustomed to being shutout; the last time Harvard finished scoreless was Feb. 6, 2000—to Providence.

Harvard 4, No. 3 Brown 2

The Bears came into Saturday’s game expecting an easier game than in their tie against No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth last weekend.

Instead, Brown blew a 2-1 first period lead just as it had two weeks ago against No. 2 Dartmouth.

Goals from Harvard juniors Tracy Catlin and Pamela Van Reesema gave Harvard the lead in the second, and a goal from Nicole Corriero that deflected in off of her head iced the game in the third.

Brown Coach Digit Murphy called the final result unacceptable in terms of consistency coming off last weekend’s performance against UMD.

“We need to learn to play our game and not to the opponent’s level, and that’s the biggest thing,” Murphy said. “I take nothing away from [Harvard]. Those kids definitely outworked us today.”

Despite its short roster, Harvard had no doubt it could compete with Brown based on its results against Dartmouth, Minnesota-Duluth and Minnesota earlier in the season.

It just took the Crimson a little experience to finally come through with a win.

“It’s nice if everybody walks into the door thinking they’re going to walk on us, because it’s not going to happen,” Stone said. “We’ve got competitors.”

“We can compete with any of these teams,” said junior center Kalen Ingram, who earned her team-leading seventh assist on Corriero’s goal. “We competed last weekend, but we just came a little short. I think we learned our lesson.”

The Crimson began its comeback at 3:53 when Catlin found the net after bringing the puck up the right side past the blueline and unleashing a high shot over the shoulder of Brown goaltender Pam Dreyer.

It was Catlin’s fourth goal of the season. She had also scored a game-tying goal on a similar individual effort against Dartmouth two weeks ago.

Harvard went up 3-2 at the 12:25 mark when Van Reesema hit the near-side high corner of the net from the left point. Her goal was set up as Corriero and freshman winger Katherine Sweet—now on the top line with Corriero and Ingram—worked the puck back around to Van Reesema after the frontliners had brought the puck up ice.