Word: lead
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...tone for the game early, as junior Emma Markley won the opening tip and sent the ball to sophomore Brogan Berry, who penetrated through Yale’s man-to-man press and scored a driving layup only six seconds into the game. The teams traded baskets and the lead for the first seven minutes of the game until the Crimson began pounding the ball inside, opening up an 11-point lead with seven minutes remaining in the half...
Yale was able to cut Harvard’s double-digit lead down to seven with a 5-0 run just before the break as Markley sat and watched from the bench, but that was as close as the Bulldogs would get for the rest of the game...
...Crimson continued to dominate in the second half and stretched the lead to 22 with 11 minutes remaining in the contest. Yale cut the lead down to 12 with less than five minutes left and appeared poised to make a run, but the Crimson connected on three consecutive three-pointers to stretch the lead back...
...goal lead was enough to hold off Union, which scored midway through the second to put the game within one. Chelsea Heinhuis was the only Dutchwoman to solve junior Kylie Stephens, who made 13 saves in net for her first win since returning to the team last month...
With a two-goal lead and 10 minutes left to play in regulation, it seemed that the Crimson had all the cushion it needed to cruise to its seventh-straight victory. But unfortunately for Harvard, that streak would be bookended by losses to the Engineers, whose forechecking style stumped the Crimson twice this season...