Balding and Martinelli led Harvard with a pair of goals apiece, while Osborne and Hendrix rounded out the scoring for the Crimson.
After going down 4-1 to Bucknell early, Harvard scored four unanswered to take a 5-4 lead in the third quarter. The Crimson, however, could not maintain that lead, as the Bison reeled off three straight in the third and fourth quarters to take a decisive 7-5 lead.
Sophomore attacker Colleen Barron and senior attacker Eleanor Marrs led Bucknell with a pair of goals apiece. Marrs has now scored 60 goals and dished out 53 assists on the season.
HARVARD 12, No. 21 HARTWICK 11
Another game, another comeback.
Sitting at 1-3 in conference play, and facing an 11-8 deficit with 3:52 remaining in the game, Harvard mounted a three-goal rally in just over two minutes to knot the game against Hartwick (15-12, 3-4) at 11. Andersen then came up with the winning goal with 1:27 to go to give the Crimson a 12-11 victory and 2-0 season sweep of the Hawks.
“[I] just kind of read the goalie and saw that she wasn’t fully paying attention to me,” Andersen said. “So I decided to flip it into the cage and it went in.”
Martinelli and Balding netted four goals apiece to lead Harvard, and Andersen also added a pair to overcome three different Hartwick players scoring hat-tricks.
–Staff writer Bryan Hu can be reached at bhu01@college.harvard.edu.