Brown dominated the majority of the second period, keeping the puck in the Harvard end for most of the first 15 minutes.

"For 15 minutes I thought Brown was all over us," Stone said. "I think they got a whipping in the locker room between the first and second periods. They came out flying, and we have the tendency to lapse at the beginning of periods sometimes. We've got to get ourselves out of that."

Harvard was able to preserve its three-goal lead thanks to Ruddock, who stopped every Brown scoring opportunity, including a few breakaways and hard wrist shots from point-blank range.

"Some days you get lucky on the shutout, but [Ruddock] had to come up with a very solid performance in the net today to earn it," Stone said. "Today Jessica kept us in it, but you can't count on that. We've got to do a better job in our defensive zone of controlling the play."

A hard-earned goal by Catlin at the 12:19 mark of the third put Harvard up 4-0. Senior center Tara Dunn set up the scoring chance by slipping the puck past the Brown defense towards Catlin streaking down ice. Dreyer raced out of the net and nearly stopped the scoring chance, but Catlin dived and poked the puck past her. Catlin spun into the wall as her shot lit the lamp.

Senior forward Tammy Shewchuk scored the final Harvard goal 34 seconds before game's end. She raced towards the blue line to receive a feed from Ingram, then spun around and walked in on the breakaway to extend the lead to 5-0.

It was Harvard's largest margin of victory over Brown since the 1986-87 season. The Crimson is 5-0-1 against Brown since the third game of 1998-99--Harvard's only defeat of the national championship season. In the one tie, the Crimson blew a three-goal third-period lead. Harvard has dominated Brown like no other team in the league.