PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The No. 19 Harvard men's water polo team swept its regular season series against Brown with a 13-12 win on the road on Saturday. The win moved the Crimson to 12-12 overall and 5-1 in the NWPC as playoff positioning gets tighter over the next two weekends. With the loss, the Bears dropped to 18-9 overall and 3-3 in conference.

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Senior Jack Burghardt (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) posted a hat trick with the first two goals of the game and the game-winner with 40 ticks remaining on the clock. First-year Clay Carrington (Menlo Park, Calif.) and sophomore Connor Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) led the way with eight goals apiece.

Harvard only trailed once in the game at 3-2 in the first. A 3-0 run late in the second gave the Crimson an 8-5 advantage at the half; a lead it maintained at 12-9 at the end of the third. In the fourth, it was all Brown on the scoresheet , including a game-tying goal with 2:45 left to play by Roland Csendes, but Harvard was able to grab the lead back on Burghardt's score with a man advantage.

Senior attacker Vilas Sogaard-Srikrishnan (Greenwich, Conn.) backstopped the Crimson to the win from the cage with five saves and a steal.

Harvard is back home at Blodgett Pool on Sunday for a match-up with MIT at Noon ET on ESPN+.