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...Green, 14-5-1 ECAC, also relies on tough defense, headed by junior goaltender Bob Gaudet, the ECAC's top goalie last year, and senior defensemen Dennis Murphy, the most recent ECAC defensive player of the week. Gaudet repeatedly denied Crimson forwards scoring chances in Dartmouth's easy 5-1 win over the icemen at Bright Center earlier this year...
...could say I'm the strong, silent type--at least I let everybody think so," willowy Crimson hoopster Karen Smith says. In fact, the 5-ft., 11-in. sophomore with almond-shaped eyes and a quiet smile, looks more like a dancer than a basketball player...
...bench, however, Smith undergoes an amazing transformation, gesticulating wildly, laughing, pouting, stomping her feet or grabbing a player in unaffected enthusiasm. She is anything but quiet...
Smith, who hails from New Castle, Delaware, grew up in a basketball family. "We're a pretty jockish bunch," she says, laughingly recalling her little brother: "He thinks he's this great basketball player--Olympic material. He spends all day practicing his 'moves' up in his room...
...Karen can be any kind of player she wants to be," declares Kleinfelder, adding that "She has to work on her skill level more." Smith got a late start in basketball, coming into the sport as a junior in high school instead of the usual debut in junior high...