The second half was a different story. Baskind set the tone 3:10 in with her first score of the night, an unassisted shot past Orange goalie Kelsey Richardson (two saves, four goals allowed), who replaced Alyssa Costantino (six saves, two goals allowed) at the half.

Sixty-six seconds later, Murray put Syracuse back up by four with a free-position score, but Baskind responded with back-to-back goals over a 29-second stretch to cut the Orange’s led to two, 7-5, with 22:02 to go.

“We did do a good job slowing them down in the second half,” Baskind said. “That’s something that I look back on and I’m pretty pleased with.”

But pulling within two was as close as the Crimson got, as Webster beat Weiss on the ensuing Syracuse possession. Murray put the visitors up four with 15:27 to go, and the Orange finished out the game with a 10-6 win.

“We didn’t put our best effort forward,” Gleason said. “We could have definitely made it a closer game.”

Saturday’s Harvard-Syracuse matchup marked the first women’s collegiate sporting event to take place at Gillette Stadium, home of the NFL’s New England Patriots and the MLS’s New England Revolution.

“It was a great opportunity,” Gleason said. “I think our team really enjoyed it. Wish we had come away with a win though—that would have made it even better.”

—Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu.