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Just 1:25 into the game, Nagle beat a defender in the midfield and pushed the ball ahead for Ingram, who collected it and, with a Princeton defender piggybacking her, protected it to her right and beat keeper Kelly Baril to the corner of the cage...
...inability to clear out effectively after penalty corners that was deadly. Friebe and Meerschwam both pounced on loose balls and made Harvard pay--essentially negating the advantage that Cowan's stellar goalkeeping always gives the Crimson. It was a moment of pure deja vu (ACCENTS) when Meerschwam hit her game-winner, and it contributed to the disbelief that the Crimson would get burned twice...
Kahn, a native Brooklynite who covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald-Tribune throughout the 1950s, always tried to resist the temptation to make mental assumptions about how a given game would turn...
When Ingram gracefully carried the ball into the circle and lured Baril into no-man's-land before burning her, and when Luskin laid her stick parallel to the ground and made a game-saving stop, I thought the Crimson had things under control. It was getting good breaks and playing solid defense--both essential ingredients to giant-killing...
...disbelief, I turned to Kahn for consolation. He wrote the Tribune's front-page story on Game Seven of the 1952 World Series, which the Yankees captured at Ebbets Field to win the title--a title even he would admit he thought Brooklyn could win. Kahn led with this: "For the Yankees, every year is next year...