Word: mason
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Throughout the game, a core group of supporters kept up a steady stream of chants and cheers, rooting on the Crimson at every opportunity. As the game progressed, the fans also acted as Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton's megaphone, echoing his pleas for fouls and yellow cards against George Mason...
Referee Reta Brown was not having any of it, though. It was late in regulation before she registered her first and only booking, a yellow card to George Mason's Jenn Gross for unsportsmanlike conduct after Keren Gudeman was pulled down in the visitors' half...
Coming into the game, all eyes were on highly touted Patriots' goalkeeper Jamie Pagliarulo. Pagliarulo, an All-American and member of the U.S. National Under-20 soccer team, is widely regarded as one of the best young goalkeeping talents in the country. The junior is already George Mason's all-time leader in saves, and was once again named All-CAA this season...
Browning can certainly not be faulted for the goal which George Mason scored in the 48th minute, and she can certainly be credited for preventing another in the 90th minute, when she quite literally "took one for the team". Browning rushed out the net to deny Gross on a breakaway chance which might have ended Harvard's season. Her valiant effort was successful, but it also cost her the opportunity to finish what she had started...
...George Mason, by all accounts a strong team in the air, seemed to have trouble containing Harvard on restarts. Credit sophomore Gina Foster and her booming corners for that. Foster, a versatile player who is as comfortable up front as she is in back, showed good judgment and great placement in floating her kicks into the heart of the Patriots' defense. This was most apparent on Minkus' goal, in which the ball sailed directly to her forehead as she moved in unmarked at the near post, but it was true of virtually all of Foster's attempts Sunday...