Deja vu all over again? The Harvard men’s lacrosse team has indeed found an anecdote for its seven-game losing streak—overtime.

The Crimson (7-7) earned a 7-6 double-overtime win over Colgate (7-7) in last night’s chilly affair on Jordan Field.

Notre Dame also fell to Harvard 7-6 in overtime on Saturday.

Harvard fought back from a 5-1 deficit to knot the game at six with 2:20 remaining in regulation.

After fending off the Raiders in the first overtime, the Crimson triumphed when junior midfielder Doug Logigian nailed a shot to the left corner with just 1:03 left.

Harvard started the game on a good note before Colgate went on a five-goal run. Junior attacker Matt Primm scored the Crimson’s first goal at 5:47 in the first quarter. Primm rolled the crease, recovered from a defender’s check and sent a shot past Raider goalkeeper Chris Hettler.

However, the rest of the half was all Colgate, as the Raiders evened the score at 3:56 in the first when Scott Herbst sent a pass from behind goal to sophomore Chris Michaels, who fired quick shot into the left side of the goal.

Colgate took a 2-1 lead with nine seconds remaining in the quarter, using a stack play in which Herbst received a pass from behind goal and passed the ball off, only to receive it again and score.

Herbst tallied another assist on the Raiders’ third goal, at 10:26 of the second period, on a shot from Jeff Vander Meulen.

“The thing that just wasn’t falling for us was our shooting,” freshman attacker Mike McBride said. “We got our shots—we just didn’t hit them. This is something we’ve been emphasizing all week—shooting the right spots—and we just didn’t do that out here today and it almost cost us big.”

In addition to converting only one of 19 shots in the first half, Harvard also had difficulty overcoming Colgate’s pressure on the Crimson’s attempts to clear the ball from its zone. The Raiders capitalized on several hitches in Harvard’s defensive transitions.

“I think we just weren’t getting open enough on the outlets,” sophomore goaltender Jake McKenna said. “I wasn’t making good passes and everybody just needed to spread out and start to widen the field out a little bit.”

The second half opened with more of the same—Raiders offense. Joe Parker and Matt Saxon added goals to bring Colgate’s advantage to a seemingly insurmountable score of 5-1 with only 9:22 left in the third quarter.

But a goal from McBride, assisted by Primm, at 4:41 in the third incited the Harvard rally.

“We started taking smarter shots and shooting a little bit harder—not trying to shoot for location so much—and they started to fall,” Logigian said.