After 10 minutes of scoreless action, Fry was there to give Harvard a spark.

A clear from Pucci forced the Princeton defense back, but a slip by Tiger freshman Ali Pankowski gave the puck to Reber, who found Fry in front of the goal. The sophomore shot past Weber, giving her a hat trick and her team the lead.

“She is doing great,” Stone said of Fry, who after Friday’s contest had scored eight of the Crimson’s previous 10 goals. “That line is playing well, and she is getting open, and they are making a lot of things happen. She seems to be in the right place at the right time, and she has great patience with the puck.”

With time running out, Princeton pressed forward, pulling its goalie out for the final minute. But a Harvard clearance found sophomore Gina McDonald in the neutral area, who scored an empty net goal on the breakaway to ice the game and give the team a 1-0 lead heading into Saturday’s contest.

“We just have to get back to the basics,” Stone said after Friday’s match. “When we did that in the first period, we had a lot of success. We got away from it in the second period and things started to wear on us.”

—Staff writer Peter G. Cornick can be reached at pcornick@college.harvard.edu.