CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Ted Donato recorded his 325th career victory to pass his former coach Bill Cleary after the Crimson closed the 2025 calendar year with a 7-3 win over Brown on Saturday night. 

Completing the weekend sweep over Ivy foes Yale and Brown, the Crimson enter the winter break with a 7-3-0 overall record and a 5-1-0 record in conference play, and sit just three points behind Dartmouth for first place in the ECAC. The seven win start marks the best start for the Crimson since the 2022-23 season. 

HOW IT HAPPENED
Ben MacDonald got the game going with a rebound tally just over two minutes into the game to send the teddy bears over the glass in the annual teddy bear toss game. Assisted by Justin Solovey and Matt Morden, the MacDonald marker had the Crimson off and running.

Less than a minute later, Mick Thompson doubled the Crimson lead after a Bears turnover, putting a shot on net and getting his own rebound for an unassisted marker. Harvard took the 2–0 lead into the first intermission.

Brown opened a wild second period with a goal of their own to pull the Crimson lead to one. Two minutes later, Casey Severo added a power-play marker after being left wide open in the slot off the rush. Assisted by his linemates Philip Tresca and Mick Thompson, the Severo strike started off an offensive onslaught for the Crimson.

Aidan Lane scored the first of his two goals on the evening off a backdoor pass from Richard Gallant to make it 4–1 Harvard. Philip Tresca added the next goal after he was also left alone in the slot. The senior added his seventh of the year to add to his already career-best season.

In the third, Aidan Lane added another off a bang-bang play for his first career multi-goal game, while Joe Miller sealed the deal with the seventh goal of the game late in the period.

GAME NOTES

• The seven-goal outburst marks the first time since February 14 of last season that the Crimson has scored seven times in a game.
• Harvard hasn't scored seven goals on home ice since the 2021–22 season when it opened the year with Bentley.
• It was the first time all season that a single player had a multi-goal game when the Crimson scored more than five goals.
• The line of Joe Miller, Justin Solovey, and Ben MacDonald had their best weekend of the season after the trio combined for nine points in two games.
• The PK was great again over the weekend, killing one penalty tonight for a total of five over the weekend.
• Mick Thompson recorded another three point game making it the seventh of his career. 
• Donato is just one of seven active coaches with 325+ career victories.

NEXT UP
Harvard travels to Quinnipiac and Princeton after Christmas.