But the shame of it was, the Crimson was the more skilled, more talented team.

Led by Westfall—who has been on a tear of late—Harvard created scoring chance after scoring chance, but only converted on a few.

There was Westfall’s eighth-minute free kick that the Brown keeper misplayed, but no one could capitalize on the scramble in the box.

Two minutes later, the Crimson did convert when Sedgwick sent a long ball to junior forward Alisha Moran, who cut back toward the middle of the field and bent a shot into the top right corner of the net.

In the twentieth minute, Westfall slipped a ball to senior striker Alisa Sato behind the defense, but Brown managed to poke the ball away, conceding a corner.

Westfall took it and found Barber, but her header was cleared off the line and Hodel’s left-footed volley on the rebound went just wide.

Two minutes later, Westfall and junior forward Emily Colvin played a clever one-two, freeing Westfall behind the defense, but her shot went wide.

“That’s the story of our whole season, basically,” Sedgwick said. “I have always thought that we’re the better soccer team. We combine really well in the middle, we have very technical players and then against a team like Brown who are just really big and physical and run through things, it’s effective, unfortunately.”

Harvard did manage to equalize in the second half on one final bit of flair when Westfall slid a ball behind the defense to Moran, who redirected it to the bottom left corner of the net in a single touch.

But Brown scored on a corner in the 84th minute to deal a crushing blow to the Crimson’s Ivy title hopes.

“If you look even at the goals that were scored, their three goals came two from throw-ins and one from a corner kick,” Barber said. “Those are completely legitimate ways to score. They scored and they won the game and that’s how you play, but both of our goals broke down their defense and were good opportunities that were created in the flow of the game.”

“The thing is, every goal that we score is a more beautiful goal than any other team’s, but they just get more ugly goals,” Sedgwick added. “Tim’s been pushing us to get more ugly goals...by getting pressure in the box, getting numbers in there.

“That’s how Brown scored—the ball was just bobbling around in the six[-yard box] and they put it away and a lot of times the ball was bobbling around the six and we couldn’t put it away.”

—Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu.