“Normally our penalty kill is doing much better in that we don’t usually give up as many [goals] as we’ve given up to this point,” Dempsey said. “It’s a work in progress. We’re seeing what works and what doesn’t.”

Despite facing a one-goal deficit at the second intermission, Harvard came out to start the third period with intensity.

“It’s just the mentality that we’re never out of a game,” Buesser said. “We’ve definitely been coming from behind in a lot of our games, so the group of players that we have, we never say we’re out of it.”

Junior Alisa Baumgartner knotted the score at two 3:20 into the third, finishing off a feed from senior Ashley Wheeler for her first goal of the season.

Though the Crimson was outshot, 7-5, in the third period, it played the Big Green evenly until Dempsey netted the game-winner late in the frame. Dartmouth outshot Harvard, 30-17, for the contest.

With the victory, the Crimson has put together its first winning streak of the season and stands tied for second place in the conference standings with its rival Big Green.

“There is that big rivalry between us and Dartmouth,” Dempsey said. “It worked out really nicely that we a) got the two wins, b) that it was against Dartmouth, and c) that it was against a team that had been doing really well.”

—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu.