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...goals by Walter Diaz and two assists in one minute by Mauro Keller-Sarmiento brought the Harvard soccer team back from a 1-0 deficit at Soldiers Field yesterday, leading the booters to a 3-1 victory over Tufts...
Five minutes of the second half elapsed before Harvard ventured into the Tufts penalty area. With 13:35 gone, lightning finally struck. Keller-Sarmiento cut past one defender down the left wing, turned up inside away from another, and sent a pass toward Diaz in the center, Diaz leaped and applied a sliding header to the ball, directing it into the right side of the goal...
Darkness and cold began to set in as Harvard held its lead. With three minutes remaining and Harvard goalie Peter Walsh getting frostbite from inactivity, Diaz struck again. After receiving a pass from John Duggan, he maneuvered to the center of the penalty box and blistered one into the nets to account for the final margin...
This was a game in which the booters matched their season high for goals scored despite the sluggish first half. "We were sleeping out there at first," Diaz said afterward. "It took a goal to get us going...
...Playing Steve (Yakopec) up front allowed me to roam around some more and then we can switch off," Diaz, who played his best game of the season, said...