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...scenes from the Icewomen's season were nothing short of amazing. A squad in only its fourth year of varsity status, which had never risen above a 7-12 record, complied a mark of 15-6, finished second in the Ivy tournament and won its first-ever Beanpot. After getting off to a solid (6-3 by reading period), the Crimson dropped two close contests just before exams, then went on a tear in February, mowing down nine straight opponents before bowing to the Tigers...
...minutes for a 4-2 win. There was the overtime with Dartmouth at Bright, when, on a textbook play, Firkins Reed screened the goalie and Sue Newell scored on a soft backhander. There was the marathon five-overtime struggle with heavily-favored Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot, ended after four hours and 15 minutes by Sue Yunick's breakaway goal. And there was the scoreless overtime, followed by a game-deciding shootout, in Harvard's 4-3 win over Cornell in the League tourney semis...
...season opener Whitcomb stopped 40 Crimson shots for a 1-0 shutouts. Then, in a rematch two weeks later, Harvard edged the Terriers, when center Liz Ward scored in the final minutes for the 3-2 win. And in the final of the Beanpot--a tourney in which Whitcomb had posted three straight shutouts over two years--freshman Ward again victimized the Terrier netminder, scoring twice for a 2-1 victory and Harvard's first...
...Coach Lon Ceglarski, whose current team is 0-7 in Beanpot finals and ECAC playoff games, it was one more heartbreaker...
Nobody missed what happened next, least of all Turner. The junior forward was engulfed by a mob scene usually reserved for overtime goals or Beanpot victories. His teammates poured out onto the ice, flung each other around in a frenzy of happiness, and then invited themselves to the ECAC's Garden party with 21 minutes of highlight-film hockey...