Jake Horton scored his first collegiate goal Friday (Gil Talbot).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's hockey team lit the lamp on four occasions in the opening frame, setting the stage for a 5-1 victory over Bentley Friday night at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

Jake Horton scored his first collegiate goal in the first two minutes of the game and Jimmy Vesey scored on the Crimson's lone power play attempt of the night. Harvard is not 7-for-25 (28 percent) on the man advantage. Steve Michalek made 28 stops on the night, with the lone Bentley goal coming on a 5-on-3 advantage.

The Crimson's penalty kill unit extended its season-long streak to 28-for-28 on the kill with two early kills in the second period, but the 5-on-3 goal late in the period ended the streak. Harvard finished the game killing off four of Bentley's five opportunities.

A rookie member of the Crimson, Horton, got the scoring started just 1:47 into the opening period. Tyler Moy battled behind the Bentley goal, feeding it out front to Seb Lloyd. Lloyd's attempt on net bounced off Bentley's starting goalie, Blake Dougherty, right to Horton for the quick wrist shot into the unattended area of the net.

Just 62 seconds later, the Crimson doubled its lead, as the top line found its spot in the stat sheet. Vesey and Alexander Kerfoot picked up assists on Kyle Criscuolo's third of the season when he found the back of the net at 2:59. The tallies for Vesey and Criscuolo extended their point streaks to eight games, but Vesey was not done.

On Harvard's only power play of the game, Kerfoot won a face-off in the Bentley zone and then received a pass back from Patrick McNally along the right boards. Kerfoot then fed Vesey to the right of the cage, where he lifted the puck over Dougherty's shoulder for Harvard's seventh power play strike of the season. The third goal prompted a goalie change, bringing Gabe Antoni onto the ice for the Falcons.

That change lasted 2:32 before Dougherty returned to the ice and the Crimson found the back of the net one more time. With a little less than nine minutes remaining in the first stanza, McNally cradled a pass from Desmond Bergin at his own blue line before heading up ice. McNally carried the puck through the neutral zone and into Bentley's defensive area before flipping a backhand past Dougherty for his fourth goal this season.

In the second frame, the Crimson continued where it left off, extending its lead to 5-0 when Tyler Moy scored on a wrap-around, that went under Dougherty's pad as he slid across the crease to try to make the save.

Bentley would finally get on the board at 17:01 of the second. Max French scored the first Bentley goal ever against Harvard in three meetings between the teams, converting on the Falcons' 5-on-3 advantge. Bentley entered the game as the top power play team in the nation, converting 16-of-44 opportunities (36.4 percent), and went 1-for-5 on the man-up on Friday.

The third period passed with little in the form of dramatics, except for Harvard's fifth penalty of the game being issued to the Kerfoot for tripping at 4:32. The Crimson would kill that off and skate off with the 5-1 victory.

Next up for Harvard is a visit to local foe No. 3/2 Boston University on Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m.