In the final 20 minutes of the match, Harvard and Stanford combined for a total of ten points. At 19:20, Nicolia registered her fourth goal of the night, but the Cardinal offense responded with yet another three consecutive goals with the shots and assists coming from five different Stanford players.

“I think we need a little more energy,” Nicolia said. “We kind of let them dictate what we were doing, so that was definitely not good.”

Heading into the 18th minute, the Crimson fought back with three more goals, two of which were free positions from Keating and Cyr. The third was an unassisted goal from Tetreault.

“We’ve been working on a system that we’ve been doing in practice a lot,” Nicolia said. “We’ve been working on when they throw different defenses at us, how to react to it. I think we have the system down pat, so whatever they through at us, we knew how to react, so it’s working well for us. We were connecting a lot.”

After two more Stanford goals, Harvard’s final point came from Nicolia with four minutes remaining, with the final score reading 18-13.

—Staff writer Kelley Guinn McArtor can be reached at kelleyguinnmcartor@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter @KGMCrimson.