The girls’ hockey team saw its unbeaten streak come to a halt last week when it lost a 3-0 decision to a surprising combo team from W-H/Pembroke.

The loss left the girls with a 6-1-1 record, and wasn’t a good way to prep for a game with defending state champion, Hingham, on Saturday afternoon at The Bog.

While the girls started the year on the fast track, their performances since Christmas Day haven’t been as dominating, as they hit a scoring slump entering the mid-season.

A 5-1 loss to Hingham shouldn’t have anyone panicking, but it does show that the team has a ways to go before it can be considered in the top echelons of girls’ hockey in Massachusetts.

They looked like they may have arrived in the first period against the Harborwomen after they survived a Hingham score in the first 37 seconds of the game, but it was all down hill after that.

A Christine Bowler goal on a difficult angle squeezed past goaltender Julia Hannon when the shot bounced high off Hannon’s shoulder and dropped behind the junior netminder for a quick 1-0 lead.

Duxbury missed a glittering opportunity at the 8:10 mark, but made up for it less than two minutes later when sophomore Brianna Connolly picked up a lose puck in a scramble in front of goalie Beth Findley and picked the top corner to tie the game at 1-1.

The Lady Dragons would have two more power-play chances in the period, but couldn’t muster much of an offense, and then hung on for the rest of the period and escaped an apparent Hingham goal as the puck squirted behind Hannon.

Senior captain Meg Muncey did her best to put her team on top to start the second period when she tested Findley in the first minute of play, but   that the roof caved in, as second period goals by Rebecca Murphy, Stephanie Invernizzi, and Bowler gave the Harborwomen a commanding 4-1 lead late in the period.

Before the period was over, both teams would rattle shots off the post, even though Duxbury had a two-man advantage on the power-play.

Hingham would miss a wide open net early in the final 15 minutes, but it mattered little, as they controlled the action throughout the period by keeping the puck in the Duxbury end.

After dominating the final period, the Harborwomen scored their final goal of the night when Invernizzi was all alone in front with 1:58 remaining and slipped her shot inside the left post.

“I was a lot more happy with the effort tonight than I was against Whitman-Hanson,” said Coach Friend Weiler. “We certainly stayed with them in the first period, and had a hiccup in the second, and we had a close third period as well. We’re a young team and we still need to work on some things.”

The girls will have another tough game on Saturday night when they entertain Franklin at 3:30 p.m. at The Bog.