Harvard junior Lizzie Frisbie broke up the run with an unassisted goal at 21:49 after winning the draw. But the Quakers countered just a minute later when Book picked the ball up in the Penn defensive zone and ran unchecked into Harvard's third. A pass to junior Jen Hartman led to a goal in the high left corner after Hartman spun around a Crimson defender.

Quaker sophomore Christy Bennett weaved her way from the restraining line into the eight-meter fan and gave Penn an 8-2 lead to end the half.

"We didn't do a good job testing their defense," Austin said. "We didn't create anything. There wasn't a lot of off-the-ball movement and we allowed a lot of double teams on the ball-carrier."

Harvard's offense woke up in the second half after an unassisted Penn goal 2:31 into the period. Co-captain Alli Harper scored her first goal of the game at 5:28 on a bounce shot to the left side of the goal. Harper leads the Ivy League in goals scored.

Junior Heather Hussey followed four minutes later with a ground ball that led to a breakaway shot to the mid-right side of the goal to bring the score to 9-4. Hussey's breakaway was the first breach of a Quaker defense that had allowed only a few Crimson players into the eight-meter fan.

A free-position goal from senior Courtney Leimkuhler at 12:33 made the score 9-5 and put Harvard back into the game.

Quaker sophomore Kate Murray and Harvard's Harper alternated goals for the next two minutes to leave the score at 11-6. Murray ran through the fan to score the first goal. Harper retaliated less than a minute later with an unassisted shot to the lower left corner after Harvard won the draw. Murray responded with another solo show in which she spun her way around a Crimson defender and shot the ball over the left shoulder of Guyer while struggling to avoid a fallen Harvard defender.