Two minutes into the period, tri-captain Kate Buesser found freshman Kalley Armstrong streaking down the ice. Buesser’s pass caught Vigilanti off balance, and Armstrong was able to one-time the puck into the net to put her team on the board after 42 minutes of futility.

Three minutes later the game was tied. Sophomore Josephine Pucci slammed the puck into an open net after junior Alisa Baumgartner grabbed the attention of Vigilanti.

By the time Pucci evened the score, the Crimson had all the momentum on its side. Eventually, Vigilanti broke down for a third and final time.

Once again, it was Armstrong with the one-timer, this time off an assist from sophomore Kaitlin Spurling.

Armstrong’s two-goal effort came a day after missing the Princeton game.

“We’d have liked her in the lineup yesterday,” Stone said. “She was ready to go, and she did well. She took advantage of her opportunities.”

“I’d say it was more my teammates that made it happen,” Armstrong said of her performance. “They put it right on my stick. I just fired it towards the net. That was it.”

After two periods of fighting its way through Quinnipiac’s defense, Harvard was able to find space for three one-timer goals.

“Solely hard work, honestly,” Stone said of the open nets. “I mean, [the team] worked hard to get open, and they did a good job puck protecting, they kept their feet moving, they rolled off the cycle, but it was hard work...They were relentless and so again...another example of you put your mind to this and you dig in, and good things are going to happen.”

With its one-goal lead in hand, the Crimson controlled the puck in the final 10 minutes of play, allowing its opponents only two shots all period. Though the scoreboard showed the outcome to be a narrow escape, Harvard was able to close out the game with the composure of a dominating victor.

—Staff writer Christina C. McClintock can be reached at ccmcclin@fas.harvard.edu.