The Crimson struck right back under two minutes into the second half when, after a free kick, junior midfielder Jamie Rees took a rebound of a Rogers shot in front of the net and put it past Obando for his first goal of the season.

“We talked about our set pieces where someone just tries to get it across goal,” Rogers said. “So I took it down off my set and hit it as hard as I could across goal, and Rees was there to tap it in.”

But unlike in the first half, Harvard was unable to generate many quality chances the rest of the way. With 3:52 remaining in the game, Rogers had a shot attempt off a cross that sailed high. It was the Crimson’s best opportunity to tie the score.

“It was a disappointment,” said Rogers, who fought through a quad strain suffered in the second half that limited his performance. “I thought we had a lot of momentum after the goal at the beginning of the second half, but we weren’t able to get that second one.”

Obando finished with five saves on the contest, and Harms tallied two. The loss ended Harvard’s seven-game winning streak against Providence, despite marking just the second time in the team’s last six contests that it outshot its opponent.

“In the second half we came out, made some adjustments from the back which shored up our line and looking at the stats, we only allowed four shots,” Junot said. “[But] it’s not the number of shots. It’s the quality opportunities, and they took care of theirs.”

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: October 14, 2010

An earlier verison of the Sept. 20 sports article "Crimson Drops Game to Friars" incorrectly referred to Harvard goalie Austin Harms as a sophomore. In fact, he is a junior.