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...Harvard got on the scoreboard just 3:26 into the action. On a penalty corner, junior midfielder Kristin Bannon sent a pass to sophomore forward Maggie McVeigh at the top of the circle. McVeigh fed the ball to freshman back Georgia McGillivray who fired a shot on net. Keating deflected the ball out of the air and past Saint Louis goaltender Alex Labarge. “We practice tipping,” Keating said. “It was a nice hard shot on goal so I didn’t really need to do anything to deflect...
...taking the lead in the 34th minute when freshman forward Melanie Baskind’s skillful over-the shoulder volley split Yale’s back line and fell into the path of the speedy Sheeleigh. The sophomore saw her effort to slot the ball across the goal mouth deflect in for the game’s first goal, her second of the season.“I was just running down the flank...I was looking to put [the ball] back in, and we had our team crashing in,” Sheeleigh said of the goal.Before that tally...
...penalty corner with seven minutes remaining in the half. Junior back Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon took the corner, and the ball was passed around to freshman midfielder Carly Dickson at the top of the circle. Dickson ripped a shot that sent Vermont goaltender Brooke Crane diving. Crane managed to deflect the attempt, but Goodman-Bacon swooped in and buried the rebound into the cage for her first goal of the season. Almost four minutes later, the Crimson struck again. This time, Goodman-Bacon had possession of the ball just over midfield and sent a through ball ahead to McCoy. McCoy raced...
...slip past URI’s center backs and allowed the star forward to get off a glancing shot on goal. Despite slipping past a stingy backline, the ball could not sneak through an outstretched Pennock as the Rams’ keeper got his foot on the ball to deflect the potential game-winning goal away.Harvard continued to attack but Pennock once again stonewalled the Crimson by saving senior midfielder John Stamatis’ shot with two seconds remaining in regulation.Desperation struck the Harvard frontline in overtime and an aggressive offensive formation at the onset of the extra period ultimately...
...first half, the Badgers’ offense came to life, sending a ball into the box that evaded a diving Mann. Shooting into an open net, Wisconsin looked poised to tie the game just before halftime. But Okuji stepped in front, slid to her right, and deflected the would-be equalizer away from the goal. Captain Nikki Rhodes stepped in to clear the ball away, keeping the Crimson ahead before the break. Although Wisconsin would knot the game up in the second half, the play effectively salvaged a draw for a Crimson team on the rise...