Co-captain Michael Baly continued the comeback, recovering the ball after a shot by sophomore midfielder Jeff Gottschall and scoring at 2:42 to cut the Raider’s lead to two.
While the Crimson rattled off 15 shots in the third, Harvard’s defense—behind the strong effort of senior Mike Packard— held Colgate to only three.
“Mike Packard really stepped it up and started leading us on the defense and getting us to be where we need to be,” McKenna said.
The final period of regulation opened with a Raider possession, but the Crimson recaptured the ball and scored again when Primm sent a pass from behind goal to McBride, who quick-sticked the ball past Hettler, bringing the score to 5-4.
Colgate’s answer to Harvard’s rally came with 6:58 left, when Parker sent a shot into the bottom right corner, giving the Raiders a two-goal cushion.
“Once we were down two, it was a little rough,” Logigian said. “But we got that fifth goal and I had a pretty good feeling that we would be all right then.”
Harvard again closed to within one with 2:30 remaining in regulation, as Baly received the ball from McBride on the right side of the box and launched a shot into left of the goal.
Sophomore Alex Vap won the ensuing face-off—one of his 11 wins of the night—and passed to Primm, who found McBride alone on the left of the goal. McBride scored, knotting the game at six, just 10 seconds after Harvard’s last goal.
“We had two and a half minutes left and we’d be running the face-off,” Logigian said. “Once we tied it up, we knew we were there three days ago and we knew that we were in good shape and it was just a matter of finding the right match-up.”
Both Harvard and Colgate had chances unities to win the game in regulation, but goaltender heroics on both sides sent the game to overtime.
With 15 seconds remaining in the fourth, a failed clear allowed Colgate’s Nick Gerken to shoot on McKenna, who made a beautiful save.
The Crimson then sent a long pass down to McBride on the left side, who sent a low bouncer to goal. Hettler made the stop at the buzzer.
Colgate dominated the first, taking six shots to Harvard’s two. The Raiders missed a golden opportunity to end it, as a point-blank shot bounced wide at the buzzer.
Logigian sent a laser into goal in the second overtime, winning the game 7-6 at 1:03.
“I think the offense might have relaxed a little bit more [in the second overtime],” McKenna said. “The middies did a great job getting open for clears in transition, bringing the ball back down the field.”
Colgate closed out its season with the loss, while Harvard still has a game against Dartmouth on Saturday.
“We had one goal in the first half so it couldn’t be any worse than that,” Logigian said. “We’d been having some trouble finishing on some shots and that’s something we need to work on before Saturday.”