And though the Crimson had an idea of CCU’s speed—the Chanticleers did boast the Offensive MVP of the tourney and Zimbabwean track star, Mubarike Chisoni, among others—it still left the field in awe.

“[Khumalo] had great pace,” Johnson said. “He came through the defense really fast, made a move and was quick around me. He has lightning speed—he was flying.”

Despite outshooting the Chanticleers 16-7, the Crimson could not fight off the CCU attack.

In the 62nd minute, the Crimson had a chance to pull within a goal of the Chanitcleers after CCU’s Kevin Van Den Berg was sent off with a red card. The penalty came as a result of Van Den Berg’s slide tackle from behind on junior midfielder Nicholas, according to several Crimson players. Despite the extra-man advantage though, Harvard’s improved offense were still unable to find the back of the net.

Chisoni—who already has eight goals—added the insurance score in the 57th minute to put the game out of reach for Harvard. Khumalo is second on the Chanticleers’ list with four, having picked up two against the Crimson.

URI 3, HARVARD 1

Unlike the last two games in which Harvard was leading during at least one point during the game and held its opponent to just seven shots, the Crimson let up 17 and managed to get off only four during the loss to the Rams (3-1).

Harvard did tie the match at 1-1 with less than 20 minutes to play on an Altchek goal, but Rhode Island put itself back ahead again at the 84:22 mark on a direct kick from Sasha Gotsmanov, who had assisted on the Rams’ earlier goal. URI added to that 2-1 lead just a few minutes later on a score by Jeffrey Gonsalves, his second of the afternoon.

Harvard was also whistled for three yellow cards during the day.

—Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu.