“It’s gonna be up to us,” Stone said. “If all our pistons are firing, we’re gonna be able to win. We’re working on firing all all of our pistons.”

NIAGARA 4, HARVARD 2

Harvard fired 29 shots to Niagara’s 20, but defensive mistakes were once again the Crimson’s downfall.

“We should have won this game,” Catlin said. “We ouplayed them and we outshot them.”

Stone concurred.

“We made stupid mistakes,” Stone said. “We didn’t capitalize on our oppurtunties, we didn’t bury the puck. We had very good looks at the net, we were very aggressive offensively, we had a lot going and then all of a sudden we forgot to play defense.”

The Purple Eagles struck first, a mere six minutes into the game, when freshman left winger Teresa Del Monte sent a pass to junior right winger Valerie Hall, who broke in on goal. Hall’s shot was stopped by Ruddock, but senior center Brooke Bradburn buried the rebound.

Harvard responded a few minutes later, when Bradburn was sent to the box for high sticking. Corriero recieved a cross-ice pass from Hagerman, dipsy-doodled around a defender and sent a pass across the Niagara zone to junior center Kalen Ingram.

Ingram sent the puck back to a net-bound Corriero, who whistled a shot from just outside the hash marks past senior Purple Eagles goalie Tania Pinelli.

The goal was Corriero’s ECAC-leading 15th of the season. Ingram was credited with her 13th assist.

The Crimson took its only lead early in the second period.. The teams played four-on-four hockey for most of the first minute, then Harvard was a woman-down for the next 20 seconds.

With confusion ensuing when Van Reesema left the box, Ingram picked up the puck in the neutral zone and passed to sophomore center Lauren McAuliffe, who fired the puck up to Catlin. Catlin crossed the blue line on her own and took a long, hard shot that was partially blocked by Pirelli, but then trickled in behind the Niagara goalie.

The final minute of the second period was once again disastrous for the Crimson.

An onrushing Bradburn centered the puck to the incoming Del Monte who sent the puck through Ruddock’s legs and into the goal with only 30 seconds on the clock.