The Harvard field hockey team embarked on its journey to another NCAA bid with a solid win at home against Vermont on Friday, but settled for a record of 1-1 after its loss to New Hampshire yesterday on Jordan Field in a battle of recent tournament qualifiers.

New Hampshire 1, Harvard 0

The lone goal was scored with 10:05 left in the game when sophomore Jennifer Peyser took a shot from the right side of the cage. Harvard goalkeeper Katie Zacarian saved it, but Peyser beat her on the rebound, taking the Wildcats to victory.

The second half of the game was peppered with action on both sides of the field, as both teams surrendered penalty corners and ample scoring opportunities without benefit for the Crimson.

“We didn’t make the best decisions,” said Harvard Coach Sue Caples. “We have to have that ability to execute under pressure, to have that poise, to create good scoring opportunities.”

One opportunity came for the Crimson at an unlikely point in the game—while New Hampshire played a penalty corner just one minute before scoring the winning goal.

Harvard broke up the Wildcats’ play to pass the ball out of its defensive end on a breakaway to New Hampshire’s goal. But the Crimson’s momentum was stopped short when Wildcat Kaitlin Carney halted the attack and sent the ball back to Harvard’s end of the field.

“We had many opportunities,” Caples said. “At the very end there, we had a five-on-one [situation] and we didn’t even get a shot off. To have a five-on-one and not get anything is terrible.”

Harvard had many other chances to score among its 19 shots and nine penalty corners, coming close to scoring again and again on a goal called back, a reverse chip that almost tied the game, and several drives that passed just wide with and without goalies in goal.