After the mixed day on Saturday, the game against UMass was a perfect way to rebound. The Minutemen took an early 2-0 lead before Harvard was able to score its first goal. At the midway point, the minutemen lead by one tally, 3-2.

In the third quarter Harvard scored three unanswered goals to take a 5-3 lead. UMass cut the lead to one twice in the fourth quarter, but Harvard was able to hold the lead in the end and earn the win.

Junior Theo Ludwick led the attack with two goals in the game.

“We came out strong and our defense was impregnable,” Cheng said. “We played really tough, and they had no offense because of what we were doing on defense. We showed everybody that we can beat this team. It was our time to come through.”

The team was happy that it finally defeated UMass after coming so close many times this season, but this might not be the final match between the two teams this season. Harvard could face the Minutemen at Easterns in two weeks.

“Everyone was pretty excited that we won, but we all know that two weeks from now is what really matters,” Fisher said.

The team, which is by far the most successful that Harvard has ever had, will face either Princeton or Navy at the Eastern Championship, both of whom Harvard has defeated in the past two years.