Word: breakaway
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With the Harvard men’s soccer team trailing 2-1 with less than 20 minutes remaining in regulation, Crimson captain Michael Cornish found himself on a semi-breakaway. Sizing up the Columbia goalie, Cornish took a shot from just inside the box that deflected out of bounds off a Lion defender, but the play nevertheless resulted in a Columbia goal kick...
Harvard pressured Columbia for much of the second stanza, but was unable to tally the game-tying goal. One of the Crimson’s best second-half scoring opportunities came when junior forward Ladd Fritz was tripped up on a breakaway inside the penalty box area, yet no calls were made. This last non-call came minutes after Cornish’s shot went astray off a defender but no corner kick was awarded...
...Green could sustain no offense beyond cherry-picking, which seemed to be a feasible strategy at the outset, when freshman Katherine Weatherston got behind the defense and scored on a breakaway...
Students were also excited about the breakaway win. The Harvard Republican Club was holding the biggest signs for Romney, who is a 1975 graduate of the Law School and the Business School...
Darling had also netted Princeton’s first goal. It came as sophomore attacker Natalie Matirosian sprung free on a breakaway. Zacarian deftly stopped the first shot, but the rebound was centered to Darling for the score...