As the Crimson learned Saturday, nothing takes away the sting of a tough loss like an ugly, hard-working win. Each of Harvard’s four lines hustled, and each of them generated scoring chances to sweep the season series with Colgate for the second straight year.

Every Crimson goal was scored in gritty fashion. Junior Rob Flynn had the first, 2:38 into the game. He took advantage of a juicy rebound off the stick of new linemate Kevin Du to score his first goal since Nov. 25.

Senior winger Dennis Packard, who had five goals in the first seven games of the season but hasn’t scored since, finished another rebound goal midway through the second. Classmate Rob Fried (two points) finished the scoring on a 2-on-1 with 1:07 left in the third when a pass from junior Brendan Bernakevitch (two points) bounced off his skate and into the goal.

No one was confusing this for swift-skating, crisp-passing Billy Cleary hockey, but it was enough to win. And for this struggling Crimson team, that’s all that matters.

“We have to score workmanlike goals,” Mazzoleni said. “Our team realizes who they are, and what they have to do to be successful. Now they have to continue to understand how hard they have to play.”

Daigneau allowed a goal on Colgate’s first shot on net—Jon Smyth’s slapper from the right circle at 9:53 of the first—but was flawless for the rest of the evening. Mazzoleni said he thought Daigneau “played steady,” which wasn’t a heavy task given the superb effort of Harvard’s defense. The Raiders (9-8-3, 4-4-0) had 18 shots on goal. Only five came in the third.

“I don’t think we gave them a lot,” Mazzoleni said. “I thought we played real hard defensively and took away their space.”

—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.