Princeton was led offensively by attackman Jason Doneger (4 goals), 2003 First Team All-American attackman Ryan Boyle (1 goal, 3 assists) and attackman Peter Trombino (2 goals, 2 assists). With four points on the day, Trombino took over the lead in the Ivy League rookie point race from Harvard attackman Greg Cohen.

The Tigers were able to control possession of the ball during much of the game due to their 12-8 advantage in faceoffs and 24-18 advantage in groundballs, which McBride pointed to as the “X-factor” in the game.

The Crimson will travel to Yale on Saturday, where it will attempt to shrug off the demoralizing effects of this weekend’s loss and get its season back on track.

“Hopefully we can improve a lot on our performance,” Chandis said. “We need to get our [stuff] together.”

“When you play Yale, it’s not like any other game,” McBride added. “It’s a battle every year. We’re going to come out fired up for that game. Yale is the one team that we want to beat every year.”

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