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Quaker sophomore Elisabeth Alexander put herteam ahead briefly with a jumper at the other end,but on the Crimson's ensuing possession, Egelhoffbarked for the ball at one o'clock, took a dishfrom Monti and flung a screaming liner through therim. After a Penn miss, Monti pushed the stake ineven further, hitting a wide open three from theright corner after Janowski astutely passed out ofa triple team in the high post...
...cliche-infested sports article might remarkthat Monti's heroics were too little, too late. AMonti jumper with the shot clock winding downbrought Harvard within three, 41-38, at the 4:11mark, but Angell put the fannies back in theirseats for good with her team's first three of thegame, from...
...time. The date was Jan. 24, 1998, three days after an atom bomb named Monica was dropped on the capital. The hosts were Al and Tipper Gore; House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane were their guests. Washington was radioactive--the press was on a round-the-clock Clinton death watch--and there was private tension as well. A month before, Gephardt had delivered a scathing speech at Harvard, attacking Democrats who practice "the politics of small ideas" and replace compassion with "momentary calculation." Everyone knew whom he was talking about--and now the subject of his speech...
Harvard really started to turn it on in thethird period. Ahead 3-2, Northeastern tried to sitback in a neutral zone trap, content to stop upHarvard's offense and whittle down the clock. Withjust over seven minutes remaining in the game,Harvard finally broke through thanks to pressuredown low. On the second of two great rebounds,freshman for ward Jeff Stonehouse clanged his shotoff the crossbar. It was the first in a series ofchances that finally culminated in Scorsune'sgoal...
Harvard's offense must have thought the gamewas over at that point because it left the gym anddid not return. The Crimson mustered only twopoints--on a lay-up by Sturdy with 1:07 showing onthe clock--over the final 7:39 of the first half,allowing Yale to take a 20-18 lead into halftime...