On each of Ingram’s three power-play goals, Crimson defenseman Pamela Van Reesema set her up in front from the left point.

On the first goal, which came just 3:16 into the game, Van Reesema’s shot hung at the top of the crease, and as New Hampshire goaltender Jen Huggon moved out of position to play it, Ingram put it past her.

For the second goal—which came at 9:54 of the first—Harvard center Lauren McAuliffe got the initial deflection, but the puck came right back to Ingram as Huggon was taken out of the play. Ingram then calmly skated out of traffic and backhanded the puck into the open net.

Ingram completed the hat trick with a deflection from the top of the crease just 2:08 into the third period.

She was surprised that UNH left her so uncovered all night.

“They play a box, and they just stick to the box, and we recognized that,” Ingram said. “Normally I just play on the wing there, and coming in no one would pick me up.”

Ingram had scored just two goals this season entering the night, but she more than doubled her season total in one game. Although her goal-scoring numbers have been down this season, she had been leading the nation in assists-per-game with 14 in 11 contests entering this week.

Despite falling behind 2-0 and 4-1, UNH stayed in the game. A major turning point came with 5:30 left in the second period, when Wildcat center Debbie Bernhard hit Corriero from behind. The collision caused Corriero, who had already been down on the ice, to hit the rear boards head-first.

Corriero felt a surge of pain in her neck and cried out, then remained motionless on the ice for nearly five minutes.

“I just was really scared because you hear about all those freak stories where people hit their heads and they never walk again,” Corriero said.

Corriero did come back to play in the third period. She sweetened her evening and kept her six-game goal-scoring streak alive by scoring on a quick, deceptive wrister that snuck past Huggon inside the left post at the 7:38 mark.

The game disqualification charged to Bernhard for her hit on Corriero set the Crimson off on a five-minute power play. But Harvard wasted the opportunity when Crimson center Tracy Catlin was called for a hitting-from-behind minor penalty just 15 seconds later. The Wildcats then capitalized on the four-on-four with under four minutes left in the period, as UNH winger Jaime VanMassenhove beat Kuusisto top-shelf on a breakaway.

The Wildcats killed the rest of the penalty.

Harvard began to wear down in the final minutes of the second, due largely to its short roster and the Olympic-sized ice surface its skaters had to cover. But the Crimson bounced back in the third as the Ingram and Corriero goals put Harvard up 4-1.

“At the end of the second period, I think we were holding on hoping that we weren’t going to lose,” Stone said. “In the third period we went to win, and that’s what turned it around for us.”