Neither team could break the deadlock until Cohen scored his first goal of the game with 2:32 to go before the half.

That set up a flurry of scoring before the break, with Walsh adding his second of the night a moment later and Dionne scoring his second off a pass from Walsh with a minute remaining to put the Blue Devils up, 4-3.

Before the period was over, Cohen notched his second goal of the game off a Duke turnover, taking a pass from Eipp and beating Rock to tie things up heading into the break.

“I thought we played really strong in the first half,” Gambitsky said. “The offense was playing well, possessing the ball, and the defense was also playing well.”

Duke finished with 19 turnovers—10 of which came in the final period—but collected 32 ground balls, compared to 20 for the Crimson. Harvard outshot the Blue Devils, 48-36, on the afternoon, paced by 12 attempts from Cohen and nine from Eipp. But too many of those shots failed to turn into scores.

“We outplayed them for three of the four quarters, but at the end of the day, that’s obviously not enough,” Cohen said. “In the future we have to look to play a strong, complete game.”

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