Junior forward Charles Altchek continued his hot scoring streak with two goals in the Crimson’s 2-1 win over Fairfield on Friday. Altchek now has six goals on the season and Harvard has not yet lost on its home turf of Ohiri Field.

The Harvard men’s soccer team had two goals entering this season: win the Ivy championship and earn a postseason bid to the NCAA tournament.

While the campaign for the former has yet to begin, the Crimson (4-1-1) finished the main part of its quest for the latter with two key wins over northeastern rivals.

Yesterday, Harvard extended its win streak to three with a tough 2-0 road victory over UMass. Two days earlier on its home turf, the Crimson held on against Fairfield for the 2-1 win.

The victory on the road was the first for a Harvard team that is 3-0-1 at Ohiri Field this season.

“I think everyone really started to get into the habit of winning and you always enjoy that feeling,” said co-captain and senior goalie Ryan Johnson. “We are starting to understand what it takes—the energy that it takes—and it’s becoming a habit now.”

Harvard will look to continue its win streak again on the road next week against Yale—part of one of the longest stretches away from home that the Crimson will face all season.

HARVARD 2, UMASS 0

With a number of players suffering from injuries, the gamewinner yesterday came from an unexpected place.

Sophomore Jeremy Tchou—who only played in one contest all last season—scored his first collegiate goal to give Harvard the advantage. The Crimson put one more through and came away from Amherst with a 2-0 win over the Minutemen (3-5-0).

Tchou played the role of garbage collector when he found the ball from 10 yards away and knocked it into the back of the net for the unassisted goal.

“Jeremy scored a really big goal for us,” said captain and defender Will Craig. “He was playing really well and it was actually a pretty tough shot for him—he hit it with his off foot.”

Junior forward Charles Altchek—who has six goals on the season—and senior midfielder Nicholas Tornaritis did not start in a surprise move, but still played key roles in the victory.

“We did have five games in nine days and that’s a lot of the games and the guys are tired,” Craig said. “UMass had seen us play and knew who our starters were, so we thought we should throw a couple different things in like that.”

Nicholas Tornaritis finished the day, however, with one of the Crimson’s best lines—posting six shots and the other Harvard goal off an assist by his brother, Anthony Tornaritis. He played a key role in the Crimson’s offensive domination with 11 shots on goal to UMass’ three.

The shutout was the third for Johnson and Harvard’s defense.