The Harvard women’s hockey team started out the weekend by making history.

Unfortunately for the Crimson, it wasn’t the kind its skaters will want to remember, as Harvard dropped a 3-2 decision to Yale at Ingalls Rink on Friday—the team’s first loss to the Bulldogs since Nov. 18, 1984, when Harvard went down by the same tally.

The Crimson (3-1-1, 3-1-0 ECACHL) fell to Yale (2-4-0, 1-3-0) in a tight game that sparked Harvard to come out Saturday and give one of its best efforts of the young season to defeat Princeton 3-0 at Hobey Baker Rink.

The team emphasized it wouldn’t let one loss to Yale spoil the entire weekend.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” said tri-captain Kat Sweet.

Although every game matters in terms of the Ivy title, losing a game early on in the season can bring with it positive effects of firing up a team. Harvard did just this against Princeton (3-2-1, 2-2-0).

“We could have gotten really dejected and lost faith in ourselves and rolled over and died,” said tri-captain Nicole Corriero. “But we showed a lot of resiliency and heart. It was so awesome to see how we responded to adversity.”

HARVARD 3, PRINCETON 0

On Saturday night, the hockey team wiped the rink clean with longtime rival Princeton. Harvard dominated the ice the entire game, spending most of its time on offense with 24 shots against Tiger goalie Roxanne Gaudiel.

Sweet opened the scoring early on with a goal at 8:18 in the first period with the Crimson enjoying its first power play of the game. Corriero assisted with a great play by coming up the left wing and into the zone. She managed to take most of the Princeton defensive players with her and passed to the center where Sweet was open in front of the net.

“It was a garbage goal, but it got the job done,” Sweet said.

Corriero added another assist at the 4:31 mark of the third period. After bringing the puck up with junior forward Jennifer Raimondi, Corriero once again passed the puck to the center where a waiting Raimondi scored to put Harvard up 2-0.

Corriero iced the victory, scoring the last goal of the game at 13:46 in the third period. Sophomore defender Caitlin Cahow moved the puck out of the Crimson defensive zone by passing it up the ice to freshman defender Jessica Mackenzie. Mackenzie was then able to feed Corriero the puck. She then scored Harvard’s third and final goal of the night.

“I put a lot more pressure on myself to produce more [during Saturday’s game],” said Corriero. “[We all] dug a little deeper to make sure we came out with a decisive win.”

YALE 3, HARVARD 2