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Dominating play at both ends of the field, Harvard came within a heartbeat of knocking off the Wildcats here yesterday, settling for a superbly played, 2-1 loss that eliminated the stickwomen from the tournament and ended their 1980 season...
After watching Ivy rivals Yale and Dartmouth fall in earlier first round action, the Crimson trotted on to the artificial surface at Benedum Field and played its finest contest of the season. For the first time all year, both the offense and defense had splendid games, beating the highly-touted Wildcats to the ball at both ends and conjuring up imaginative, almost mystical moves once they...
After winning the opening bully, the magical sophomore from Woburn, Kate Martin, nudged a rebound past UNH goalie Robin Balducci eight minutes into the game to give Harvard a 1-0 lead. The early tally vitalized the Crimson: forwards Martin, Sue Field and Lili Pew managed to keep the ball in the Wildcat zone for 14 of the next 16 minutes, and support from links Elaine Kellogg, Ann Velie and Maureen Finn snuffed out the two UNH attacks...
More than perhaps any other sport, momentum controls field hockey. Harvard had the momentum entering the second half, and almost doubled its margin two minutes into the stanza when Pew clanged a low liner off the post from eight feet...
...nothing turns the tide of a contest like a penalty shot. Outplayed by the Crimson on the field and the stat sheets, UNH got the game's only big break at 13:09, when three stickwomen were called for deliberate obstruction in the circle, a breach of field hockey scripture which calls for the seven-yard death penalty...