Word: icewomen
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Respectability came quickly to last year's fledgling Crimson women's hockey team. Although the icewomen opened Year One of varsity status with a 17-0 disaster at the hands of Providence College, two months later they stood at 6-6-1, riding a four-of-five winning streak and opening eyes in the Ivy League and beyond...
Despite the late-season tournament woes which dragged their record back below .500, the icewomen's marginal campaign has to be considered a success. Their 2-3-1 Ivy record kept them in that race to the finish, and the 6-11-1 overall mark included a number of impressive performances: a 3-0 whitewash of Colgate, a 6-1 romp past Bowdoin, a 3-2 squeaker over Yale and the heartbreaking 6-5 overtime loss...
...been for the superlative performance of B.U. forward Nancy Kilik, that "somebody" would have been the Terriers. Kilik scored all four B.U. goals, two of them shorthanded, and seemed the only player who could rise above, let alone equal, the strong team effort of the icewomen...
Well aware of their 6-5 loss in overtime last month to the Terriers, the Crimson had thoughts of turning the tables when Lauren Norton's goal at 1:41 of the second pulled the icewomen to within one. Norton came around the cage and tried to pool cue the puck by the near post. B.U. goalie Mary-Leslie Ullman had not guarded the pipe tightly enough, and Norton's english skidded the disc...
Kilik scored the game's final marker at 5:20 on the Crimson's first legitimate blunder of the contest. With the icewomen sporting a man advantage, Kilik stole a clearing pass intended for Huber in the Harvard zone and immediately launched one goalward, a direct...