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UConn got on the board first, scoring a powerplay goal 2:11 into the game. After a body-checking penalty on Spurling left the Crimson a skater short, Huskies defenseman Cristin Allen received the puck off a faceoff and lasered a pass to teammate Jennifer Chaisson at the left post. The UConn center knocked a shot off of Harvard co-captain Cori Bassett’s skate into the net to give the Huskies an early 1-0 lead...
With five and a half minutes left in the first period, Harvard rookie forward Jillian Dempsey raced past Huskies defender Casey Knajdek and seemed to have a clear shot on the net. But Knajdek tripped Dempsey up, possibly preventing a goal, but also giving the Crimson a power play...
...initial score lit a flame under the Harvard offense, which responded to the early deficit by relentlessly assaulting the net. The Crimson took the game’s next 14 shots on goal, pressuring goalie Alexandra Garcia and the UConn defense into committing several ill-advised penalties, the first of which proved costly...
...first half of the second frame, it was the Crimson who had difficulty staying out of the penalty box. A pair of consecutive hooking penalties by co-captain Kathryn Farni put Harvard on the defensive, giving the Huskies momentum and allowing them to dictate the pace of the game...
...Pilot Captain Mark (Pitbull) McDowell, 26, and weapons-systems officer Captain Thomas (Lag) Gramith, 27, died in the first crash of an Air Force fighter in Afghanistan since the war began more than eight years ago. Coming near the end of a four-hour combat flight, the crash appears to have been the result of a series of steps, each insignificant in and of itself, but which in combination created a cascade of disaster...