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Shumka came off the bench to score three goals--the last an overtime game-winner--in one of his team's biggest games of the year: a 3-2 overtime win over Dartmouth. Shumka scored in the 75th and 78th minutes of regulation and again at 7:43 of overtime after entering the game with about 25 minutes left...
...would have taken me. But I saw the Dodger-Yankee game in 1978, the game when Welch struck out Reggie Jackson in Dodger Stadium. I remember that later in New York, Reggie hit the home runs, but that was a great game because I was sitting behind the Dodger bench, and Welch just blew Reggie away with those fastballs...
...right. The last time. I did this, I got in trouble. I wrote about sports--about the hockey team, about the boring alumni fans who with their bench cushions and espresso warmers couldn't even bother to sit through both games of the Beanpot. I wondered what cosmic force turned strapping young men and women such as we into old bores who would rather plan the quickest route back to Duxbury than scream "Sieve" till their face turned blue...
With their helmets off, however, these three seniors play another kind of defense altogether. When the offense is in the game, these three veterans usually sit in a row on the bench. The glare off their shaved heads is so strong that it may keep spectators from getting a clean view of the action...
Jenie Wall, Columbia (Fr., B) San Francisco, Calif.--Came off the bench to score the team's only goal in a 2-1 loss at Buffalo...