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After Harvard's goal, UConn turned up the pressure, pinning the ball on the Crimson side of the field for the majority of the game's final minutes. The Huskies' aggressive play earned them three corner kicks in the final four minutes, but Harvard was able to turn them back on each occasion...
Sophomore forward Lacey Toups took possession near the left corner of the Crimson box and made a quick move toward the center of the field. Toups created some daylight and drilled a low shot toward the left corner of the net. But just as the ball neared the goal, freshman goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther dove to her right to make the save--her fifth on the day--securing the victory for Harvard...
Harvard's winning score came on the heels of a sustained period of UConn offensive control. The Huskies maintained possession of the ball and applied much pressure to the Crimson backfield, and it seemed as if the momentum was set in UConn's favor...
Then with 14 minutes left in the game, Toups--who had just been inserted into the game--ripped a booming kick toward the Harvard goal. The shot was not to be, however, as the ball slammed into the upper right corner of the post and careened out of the Crimson zone...
...When you play a team as talented as UConn, you know that they can dominate, and they did that for a while," Wheaton said. "But when the ball hit the post it was a wake up call...