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UMass managed only 26 yards offensively on three possessions in the first quarter, as linebackers Craig Beling and Bob Woolway stacked up behind the five-man front and shut off the visitor's power running game.
Though the Crimson defense performed without the services of linebacking standout Craig Beling for over half the game, the Minutemen could do little all day to achieve the kind of ball control they are known for, let alone the victory.
Captain Steve Potysman, who was no less than bubbly after the game, noted that, "They drove on us right after Subway (Beling) went out with his injury. But when they got too close we buckled down, and Matt (Sabetti) was super in Beling's place."
The Monday before the Columbia game, Woolway was informed he would start alongside senior Craig Beling, and last Saturday he justified the starting role with a bravura performance in which he accounted for ten unassisted tackles and threw in two quarterback sacks as a lagniappe.
Woolway credits his transormation into one of the pillars of the Crimson defense to the tutelage of fellow linebacker Beling and new linebacker coach Alex Nahigan. Nahigan was hired over the summer principally as Harvard's baseball coach. "He's been the main difference," Woolway says. "We probably work harder...