No. 12 Harvard and No. 2 Cornell have battled each other all year for the top spot in the ECAC standings, but over the next few weeks, several players from both teams will be fighting over hardware.

The awards season for men’s college hockey started last Friday when the All-Ivy teams were announced.

The Crimson (19-8-2, 17-4-1 ECAC) and Big Red (24-4-1, 19-2-1) each placed three players on the first team and five overall.

Harvard captain Dominic Moore, junior winger Tim Pettit and sophomore defenseman Noah Welch earned first team All-Ivy honors.

“It’s nice to be chosen for the award because it’s something voted on by the coaches,” Moore said. “But I really don’t put too much weight in this kind of stuff. If someone votes to select me, I’m honored, but it’s not the most important thing.”

Senior center Brett Nowak was a second team selection and sophomore goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris picked up an honorable mention.

“It is a great feeling to be selected for the first team, especially with the strength of the Ivy league this year,” Pettit said. “Being there with a teammate like Domi, it’s even better. It is great.”

Pettit led the ECAC in scoring with 16 goals and 26 assists for 42 points. Moore posted similar totals with 21 goals and 20 assists while leading the league with seven power-play goals.

“We have a lot of very skilled forwards,” Pettit said. “Especially on special teams, but also in our regular line combinations, we have a lot of offensive weapons. It makes it easier.”

Cornell junior forward Ryan Vesce, senior defenseman Doug Murray and sophomore goaltender David LeNeveu joined the three Crimson players on the first team.

“When you think about Cornell, you think about what a great team they are in the collective sense of the word,” Moore said. “But they have some great individual players who sometimes get overlooked. Murray specifically has been one of the top players in the league for the last three years.”

Moore, Vesce and LeNeveu, who was also named Ivy League player of the year, were all unanimous first team selections.

LeNeveu has been the most dominant goaltender in college hockey all year. He leads the nation with a 1.16 GAA and .943 SV%, and has compiled a 22-2-1 record and seven shutouts.

Harvard also has one of the top goaltenders in the country, and the two will likely meet for at least a third time this season in the ECAC finals.

Grumet-Morris is fifth in the nation with a 2.24 GAA and second, behind only LeNeveu, with a .929 SV%.