The Crimson offense was led by junior attackman Mike McBride, who followed up his two-goal performance in the season-opener with another two goals.

Senior midfielder Jeff Gottschall recorded two assists, Greg Cohen tallied a goal—the first of his career—as well as an assist, while his brother, sophomore attackman Steve Cohen, added a goal to push his team-leading total to six.

“It was nice to break the ice [with my first goal], but it would have been a lot better if the game was close,” Greg Cohen said.

Three of the Harvard goals came on extra-man opportunities, which was one of the lone bright sports for the Crimson.

Unfortunately for Harvard, the team had only four opportunities to play with an extra man, while the team committed nine penalties of its own, leading to four Bison goals.

The Crimson will try to avoid a losing streak on Saturday as it travels to Amherst to take on preseason No. 7 UMass.

Harvard found itself on the short end of an 11-6 decision when it played the Minutemen last season.

“We just have to look past this game and prepare ourselves for our upcoming matches,” Chandis said.

“But it’s important to remember how we felt after playing Bucknell, because we never want to feel like that again.”

—Staff Writer Jonathan P. Hay can be reached at hay@fas.harvard.edu.