Fry, while holding off the Bulldog defender, kept the puck on her backhand before switching to her forehand and lifted a shot past Ladiges, giving the Crimson a commanding 3-0 lead with 11:01 left to play in the frame.

“The Fry-Dempsey-Reber line had a good day,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We moved the puck really well and put a lot of pressure on them by transitioning the puck quickly. We had a strong penalty kill and a shorthanded goal…. A lot of good things happened for us [Saturday].”

But Fry was not finished. In the final frame, Fry added to her hat-trick when she made a well-placed backhanded shot in traffic over the left shoulder of the goalie.

“[Fry] played great. She had a lot of great support, and she put pucks on net, and good things happened for her,” Stone said. “That’s what we are looking for.”

Harvard will now head into the opening round of the playoffs riding a four-game winning streak and will take on Princeton, a squad the Crimson routed in a 10-1 victory on Feb. 4.

“We feel good about where we are,” Stone said. “But this is the end of the regular season, and the postseason is a brand new ballgame.”

—Staff writer Cameron Dowd can be reached at camerondowd14@college.harvard.edu.