After the Big Green evened the score 10 minutes later, Harvard quickly regained the lead thanks to a Fallstrom score.

The Crimson added to the lead 21 minutes later. Michael Biega found Del Mauro in the left faceoff circle, and the captain found the back of the net to extend the visitors’ lead to two goals.

“It’s a lot easier [to score] when a guy on your team’s putting the puck on your stick in a dangerous area, and that’s really what happened,” Del Mauro said.

Dartmouth never retied the score. The Big Green scored with 1:26 left in the third period, but the goal proved to be too little too late, as Harvard grabbed a 3-2 victory.

But despite the strong start to the series, Friday’s win proved to be the Crimson’s only one.

“We were planning on coming to the rink the next day and having a repeat [of Friday’s performance],” Del Mauro said. “[The next two games], we did a lot of the same things we did [on Friday]...[but] sometimes your shots just aren’t in the back of the net.”

—Staff writer Robert S. Samuels can be reached at robertsamuels@college.harvard.edu.