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Saturday's win secured for Harvard the mythical New England championship and boosted the laxmen into a three-way tie with Dartmouth and Princeton for second place in the final Ivy League standings. The Crimson compiled a 4-2 Ivy record {a loss would have dropped the team to fourth place: Cornell once again won the title} and a 9-4 overall mark for the season...
From the outset Harvard's offense was in high gear. The laxmen knocked in four goals in the first quarter while keeping she men from the land of the split-level house to only one tally...
...second period, both teams went on scoring sprees. The Crimson tallied six times, with three of the laxmen's goals coming within less than 20 seconds of each other, starting at the 7:23 mark. Adelphi awoke front its earlier scoring coma and bounced back with six of its own tallies, putting the score at 10-7 when the halftime horn blew...
Harvard's final goal came in the fourth period when J.J. Nullet rolled by his defender and blasted the ball by Shelley to give the laxmen an insurance tally, 12-10. Adelphi scored once more but had any hopes of a last minute rally squelched when coach Paul Doherty was slapped with two quick penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct, giving Harvard a two-minute power play as the end of the game...
...upped the laxmen's record to 8-4. They will close out the season with a contest on Saturday against Dartmouth at the Business School field. A win would clinch the New England championship, but the Nationals as still only a distant hope at best...