Cambridge, MA - After rolling off five straight wins at home, the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team took to the road to start a six-game trip away from Cheel Arena, beginning at ECAC Hockey rival Harvard University. The change of venue did little to slow down the second-ranked Golden Knights as a third-period power-play goal from senior Carlee Eusepi (Oakville, ONT) lifted Clarkson to a 2-1 win over the Crimson Friday night.

The Golden Knights improved to 10-1-1 overall and 4-0-0 in ECAC Hockey, and the team leads the conference in points (8) in the early going. Harvard fell to 1-2-0 overall and in league play. Clarkson will face another challenge on Saturday when they visit Dartmouth.

Following a scoreless, evenly played first period, Harvard became the first team in nearly a month to hold a lead against the Golden Knights, picking up a score at 5:48 in the second period when Kaitlin Spurling finished off a pass from Randi Griffin. It was the first time that Clarkson had trailed in over 325 minutes since the team suffered its only loss of the season against Vermont in mid-October. However, Harvard's advantage would be short lived as senior Dominique Thibault (L'Original, ONT) connected for her team-high eighth goal of the season, with the assist going to Juana Baribeau (Amos, QUE), at 12:19 of the second.

After a penalty was called on the Crimson at 2:31 in the third period, Eusepi took just 17 seconds of extra-player skating time to give the Knights their only lead of the game, tallying on the power play from Thibault at 2:48 into the third period.

Junior Lauren Dahm (Baldwinsville, NY) stopped 25 shots, including 12 in the final frame, for the Knights. Christina Kessler made 20 stops for Harvard.

Clarkson was out shot 26-22, but went 1-for-5 on the power play while Harvard was shut out in five extra-skater chances.