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...Harvard, its third one goal loss of the year put its final record at 12-4-1 and marked the end of the collegiate careers of seniors Francesca DenHartog, Maureen Finn, Jennifer White, Kate Martin and Jeanne Piersiak. In four years, that quintet brought Crimson lacrosse from a fledgling program to national recognition...
...what Martin, Jeanne Piersiak, Ellen O'Neill, Ellen Velie and a cast of other defenders did yesterday was shut down--especially in the first half--the Chicago visitors, who at the same time, were giving fits to the Harvard offense. And they shut down a squad that had been averaging nearly 13 goals a game this season and which had the ability to explode at any moment...
...that strong zone and aggressive stick checking that the larger and more experienced Harvard squad used especially well in the game's first 20 minutes to stake a 6-0 lead. With Piersiak and Martin giving fits to North western's top two threats, sophomore Kathleen Kochmansky and freshman Lisa Griswold, Francesca DenHartog was slowly upping the Harvard lead...
...yesterday's masterful dismantling of the Big Green machine was perhaps their finest hour. There was the unstoppable scoring of DenHartog, the outstanding direction of Finn, the inspired play of White and the top notch defensive work of Martin and Piersiak. Throw in a few heralded performances from some talented underclassmen and you've got what Crimson Couch Carole Kleinfelder called one of her squad's "sweetest victories in history...
...second half saw the emergence of the dominating Crimson defense, which allowed the visitors to penetrate the midfield mark only seven times. And while Dartmouth was having trouble finding its way to the Crimson goal. Harvard was having no such problems. As Martin and Piersiak kept a close eye on Dartmouth's top scoring threat. Sandy Bryan, DenHartog, Finn, White and junior Maggie Hart were upping the score. When Hart took DenHartog's pass and sent it past O'Donoghue with just five seconds left, the scoreboard read 22-8 and the champagne corks told the story...