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...freshman, Kingsberg joined the club team because, "Back then, soccer seemed like the perfect sport for me to play at Harvard," the fullback said recently in her Kirkland House suite. "Soccer was a club sport, and it wasn't that competitive and wasn't much of a time commitment...
...size with her speed--"I can force players to the outside if I can't make the tackle."--and her ability to fake. Also, Kingsberg has grown more aggressive over the past two years and has improved her kick so that now she feels confident at fullback...
Kingsberg also had difficulty adapting to the fullback's preventive role. "A forward gets to do something positive by scoring but a fullback can only do something wrong. It's more of a failure to let a goal go through than to miss a shot," she says...
Scalise credits Kingsberg's successful transition to fullback to her "good spirits--she doesn't get frustrated when things go wrong but keeps going at it until she improves her game...
Moran's goal came out of the blue for the Minutemen. Harvard goalie Bill Blood punched out a corner kick which U Mass forward Dennis Walsh chipped back near the front of the goal. Moran headed it in past fullback Lorenzo DiBonaventura who could only brush it with his forehead in an attempt to clear it off the line...