Word: blanke
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Crothers faced only three shots in the first period, but he was up to the challenge when the Bears unleashed the offense. Brown shot nine times in the second period, but only managed to score on a point blank shot on the power play...
...first period was uneventful for Ruddock until the final three minutes, when Harvard coughed up the puck in its own end. Brown center Meredith Ostrander took a shot from point-blank range marked for an open part of the net, but the Harvard netminder was able to dive down and knock the puck away with her pads...
...That was a great game," Stone said on Saturday. "It was up-and-down, and both goaltenders were awesome today. We took a lot of point-blank shots that their kid saved. But our kid had to save a lot of screen shots, which is a mark of someone being in a zone in a game...
Late in the second period, Ruddock stopped two shots in traffic from point-blank range. Then, in one of the more dangerous Princeton chances of the day, Tiger first-liner Nikola Holmes directed a screen shot towards the open half of the net, but the puck failed to elude Ruddock's extended glove...
...Beusekom was equally impressive in the other net, stopping an onslaught of Crimson odd-man rushes and point-blank shots. She kept Princeton in the game, though her team was outshot by a 2-to-1 ratio in the first two periods. Her performance was well-received by Springer who, having practiced with the Harvard forwards for three years, knew firsthand how tough it would be to stop them...