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Another milestone occurred Sunday night, as Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni recorded his 100th victory behind the Crimson bench. The skipper is 100-63-19 (.602) in his six seasons behind the Harvard bench...
...shot that sailed wide and high. Like a gift from above, the puck found a silver of metal on the boards and bounced right back to Higdon all alone in front of the net. Higdon didn't even know what happened until his teammates yelled at him from the bench to turn around. He then picked up the gift and put it away for the final goal of the game...
...final seconds ticked down on the game clock, I glanced down at the Harvard bench. There was a brief stoppage of play, and the sound system blared a cheerful tune over the intercom. Sitting along side his teammates, Harvard defenseman Pete McLaughlin was tapping out the tune against the boards...
Harvard retaliated, however. Freshman Craig Adams, on his way to the bench after a long shift, knocked the puck forward across the blue line to senior Kirk Nielsen. Nielsen powered across the ice towards the right post where he whipped a pass to the opposite pipe right on the stick of a streaking freshman Craig MacDonald. MacDonald then knocked in the tying goal with only 3:24 left in the first...
Other key factors in the second game included Harvard's blocking, which began to show life and took away Yale's short hits that pestered the home team in the first game. Also, some of the players off the bench--such as freshman Kalon Morris and sophomore Jim Rothschild--continued the Crimson's spiking success...