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...were flat," Mazzoleni said. "We tried juggling lines, increasing pressure in the neutral zone, it didn't work. We were getting beat off the wall. We got beat a lot down low tonight, it showed our vulnerability on the blueline...
Saturday, she surpassed that personal best with a new one of 17.71 meters that even beat last year's Ivy-best mark, set by Yale's Melanie Harris at Indoor Heps, by a hundredth of a meter...
What should the loser do? First, be elaborately gracious--for 15 or 20 minutes, anyway. Call for national unity. Congratulate the jerk who beat you. Walk away jauntily, as if you'd won. In a sense, you did. No talk about stolen elections. No "I was robbed!" Don't look back. Americans are sick of the subject anyway, and have drawn their own conclusions...
This weekend, the Crimson will get to prove whether it can beat the best teams in the nation...
...from the ECAC playoffs last year, however. The Saints appear to be much improved from last year's team, and history would indicate that a dramatic turnaround is not impossible. Case in point--Dartmouth was crushed by Harvard 8-1 in the 1999 ECAC Semifinals then came back to beat the Crimson three times last season...