Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the score knotted after three periods, both coaches agreed to play a five-minutes sudden-death overtime. Brown threatened repeatedly in the extra session, but senior goaltender Nelia Worsley preserved the stickwomern's first point of the season with four clutch saves...
...chagrin of the boisterous IAB crowd, however, scrappy ball handling and some clutch jumpers by Kathy Sandborn and Donna Couture enabled the women from Durham to seal the victory...
Rookie Gillian Raney came alive in the marathon with a pair of clutch buckets, and Meyers added a free throw, but Harvard couldn't catch the veteran Bentley express. Paula Ayers (14 points) chucked home five points and Jackie Forster (15 points) plunked home a charity toss as the hosts hung on to win the wild and wooly affair by a marker...
...story of this game was the way the makeshift Crimson defense pulled together in the clutch to hold Penn. The defense was on the field much of the second half protecting Harvard's slim four-point lead. The Crimson offense did not generate a first down in the third quarter and when the defense must have been tiring, Penn came at its throat in the fourth quarter...
...third-and-11 from their own 35, Larry Brown and Co. were down to their last hurrah. Under a fierce rush, Brown threw a clutch completion to Horner angling across the field for a first down. From there, Brown uncorked a bullet to John MacLeod in traffic. MacLeod snared the pass at his 22-yd. line, caromed off a pair of defenders and was finally ridden out of bounds...