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Sometimes you wind up with the short end of the stick, as the women's basketball team learned last night by losing to a fair-to-middling squad from Bentley College 62-57. The loss lowered the squad's record...
Harvard opened the scoring with a field goal by freshman fireball Sue Field, who accounted for two more on the night. Wendy Carle plunked in a foul shot, but then Bentley answered the Crimson outburst with a field goal...
From then on, though the scoring remained even, the first half belonged to Harvard. A tight zone defense worked wonders, forcing Bentley to resort to lots of ineffectual outside shooting. Field and forward Hildy Meyers played aggressively, and Caryn Curry, the team's mainstay, pulled things together by grabbing a total of ten rebounds and scoring seven field goals for the night...
Then came Bentley's Bower, and the game was over. Jack Sparks hit both ends of a one-and-one, and Brian Banks dropped in a lay-up in the last three seconds, but by that point it was unimportant...
Harvard came out hustling in the second half, pulling into a 64-all tie on a Banks free throw at 6:29. But Bentley turned on the retro-burners and the quick, well-oiled Falcon offensive machine reassumed the lead on a couple of fast breaks...