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Fullback Damon Jones has returned from injury to give Harvard yet another skill-position threat. He catches the ball well out of the backfield and can even be a breakaway threat when he carries the ball...
...fact the Crimson nearly let the game get away with seconds remaining in regulation. Gross once again took advantage of a Harvard defensive lapse to take off on a breakaway which left her one-on-one with Browning. Browning, who only recently wrested the starting job from junior Jen Burney, saved the day, rushing out to knock the ball away form Gross and preserve the tie-game. In the process, however, she sustained an injury which knocked her out of the game...
Browning can certainly not be faulted for the goal which George Mason scored in the 48th minute, and she can certainly be credited for preventing another in the 90th minute, when she quite literally "took one for the team". Browning rushed out the net to deny Gross on a breakaway chance which might have ended Harvard's season. Her valiant effort was successful, but it also cost her the opportunity to finish what she had started...
Fifty-one seconds later, Asano made an apparently-symbolic exit from the penalty box. As she returned to the ice, Asano picked up the puck and scored on a breakaway...
...classic, well-maneuvered breakaway, Higdon wristed a shot over McLaughlin's left shoulder for the 2-1 advantage...