Harvard struck early in the second half, re-establishing a two-goal advantage with a tally from Baskind. The Crimson and James Madison exchanged goals to make it 6-5 before Petropulos, with assists from sophomore Chelsey Newman, was able to widen it to a three goal gap—its largest of the match—with two of her own scores.

But the Dukes were not ready to bow out just yet.

James Madison lit up the scoreboard with three unanswered goals to send the game into the first of two overtimes, the tying score connecting with the net with just 28 seconds remaining in regulation play.

Harvard’s 15 turnovers on the day—more than twice as many as its opponents—allowed the Dukes to convert and close the gap between the two teams.

“Turnovers definitely hurt us,” Baskind said. “It’s something we’ve been struggling with and we need to continue to work on.”

But the Crimson didn’t let the late stalemate kill its momentum.

“We knew it wasn’t over. They scored the goal to tie, they were the ones fighting back,” Tetreault said.

Both teams struggled to score in the first overtime period—despite three on-goal attempts from Harvard—extending the contest into a second overtime period.

But this time, the Crimson put an end to the drought and secured the victory, with Tetreault’s game-winnning goal scored with 1:39 left on the clock.

The duo of Petropulos and Halpern led Harvard’s scoring with a hat trick each, while Baskind performed on both sides of the field, contributing two goals to the Crimson’s cause and logging a game-high three ground balls.

—Staff writer B. Marjorie Gullick can be reached at gullick@college.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Marina E. Watson can be reached at mwatson@college.harvard.edu.