Harvard 5, Dartmouth 2

Dartmouth jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period on the strength of two power play goals.

Big Green winger Mike Murray started things off by putting a rebound past Crothers 4:21 into the game. Senior center Frank Nardella followed that up with another tally at 12:02 of the first after Harvard had killed all but

one second of a five-on-three Dartmouth advantage.

Harvard then responded with two first-period scores of its own. With just over five minutes to play in the opening frame, forward Dominic Moore sent a shot across Dartmouth goaltender Nick Boucher’s crease. Linemate Tim Pettit collected the rebound next to the goal and tried to wrap it around the left post.

And while Pettit was unsuccessful, the puck found its way to the crashing Aaron Kim, who hammered it home to draw the Crimson to within one with 4:57 to play in the first. Then, after a game misconduct to Dartmouth’s Mike Turner at 16:03 of the opening period gave the Crimson five minutes on the man advantage, it was the Harvard power play’s chance to shine.

After getting a feed from classmate Noah Welch, freshman forward Tom Cavanagh sent in a shot from the left point that Boucher was able to turn aside. However, the rebound took off to the goaltender^Òs right and found its way to Pettit’s waiting stick.

Pettit tucked it inside the post to knot things up at two goals apiece with just 1:05 to play in the period.

A turning came 10:07 into the second period, when Dartmouth’s Trevor Byrne was assessed with a two minute minor for cross-checking 10:07, moments after a Dartmouth goal was disallowed for having a player in the crease.

After the referee’s whistle stopped play, Dartmouth winger Lee Stempniak exchanged pleasantries with Harvard

freshman Jesse Lane. Lane, however, ignored Stempniak’s antics and the Dartmouth player was hit with a

two-minute penalty. All of a sudden, Harvard had a five-on-three for up to two minutes.

As it turned out, the Crimson didn’t need that much time.

Just 17 seconds into the power play, Nowak put a rebound past Boucher to give Harvard its first lead of the game. Byrne came out of the box at that point, but Stempniak stayed in. Less than half a minute later, Moore scored on a quick wrister from the left point off good feeds from Nowak and Lane to make it a 4-2 Harvard lead with 8:36 to play in the period.