“In the past five or six games, the other team scored first, and we have had to play comeback,” Dempsey said. “So to score first in RPI was huge for us.”
Sophomore Marissa Gedman widened the Crimson’s lead to three with two power-play goals in the second period.
After Fry added another score for the Crimson in the third, the Engineers began to strike back, as senior Laura Guillemette and junior Taylor Horton pulled Rensselaer within two with a little under nine minutes remaining. But the comeback proved to be too little too late, as the Engineers failed to score the rest of the way.
With the weekend sweep, Harvard created some needed momentum for the upcoming home games against Brown and Yale.
“If we go out there and do that, we will put ourselves in a good spot heading into the playoffs,” Dempsey said. “We have the ability to control the game from start to finish and play Harvard hockey.”
—Staff writer Cameron Dowd can be reached at camerondowd14@college.harvard.edu.