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...late second-half tally by freshman Cat Ferrante lifted the Harvard women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over a scrappy Eli eleven yesterday at chilly Soldiers Field. The booters' final 1978 record stands...
Ferrante notched the lone goal after 70 minutes of scoreless play. Crimson forward Ellen Hart looped a 35-yd. boot from midfield that slammed into the Eli's left goalpost and bounded out to Ferrante. With Yale netminder Sarah Colwell out of position from Hart's blast, Ferrante coolly tucked it home from 3 yards out for the eventual game winner...
Harvard's best first-half opportunity came on an Eli error. After disarming Crimson co-captain Julie Brynteson, Yale defender Merrill Weyerhauser nudged the ball back to Colwell. The pass slipped through the goalie's hands and sputtered towards the net, but Colwell recovered in time and smothered it at the goalmouth...
Until two weekends ago, the Eli booters had not scored in Ivy competition, let alone won any games. But then they shut out Cornell, 2-0, as did Harvard, and then tied with Princeton, 1-1. Yale, though not as skilled as the Crimson, relied on speed and aggressiveness to neutralize Princeton, which beat Harvard, 2-0. (Yale's starting goalie was injured in the Princeton game so the Elis will probably start a freshman in the nets today...
Critics point to one of the research groups working to induce bacteria to manufacture insulin which already has a contract with a large pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly & Co. The speed at which the work has advanced--and possible shortcuts scientists may have taken--have raised doubts...