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...youth and inexperience has especially crippled the midfield. "We haven't been able to get the ball up from the midfield, and with the exception of the last two games, we haven't been picking up the ground balls," Pendergast explains...
With their defense looking shaky and their goalie, Steve Shelley, even worse, the Panthers unwisely took on the Crimson ball-carriers one-on-one in the Adelphi zone. Crimson attackman Tom Corcoran made the folly of that strategy clear when he carried from near midfield, and despite heavy coverage drilled one from 25 feet to make...
...second half saw the emergence of the dominating Crimson defense, which allowed the visitors to penetrate the midfield mark only seven times. And while Dartmouth was having trouble finding its way to the Crimson goal. Harvard was having no such problems. As Martin and Piersiak kept a close eye on Dartmouth's top scoring threat. Sandy Bryan, DenHartog, Finn, White and junior Maggie Hart were upping the score. When Hart took DenHartog's pass and sent it past O'Donoghue with just five seconds left, the scoreboard read 22-8 and the champagne corks told the story...
Ninety seconds later. Follows unleashed a pass from midfield to Steve Bartenfelder near the net, who drove home Harvard's fourth goal...
...that point the Harvard offense hit its dry spell and Doe, a senior midfielder, went to work on the Harvard defense, scoring four consecutive goals. With the gap narrowed to 5-2, halftime failed to slow the one-man attack. Barely two minutes into the second half, he carried from midfield and scored again. The most spectacular effort in his streak came 11 minutes later, when Doe faked out one defender, slipped between two more and shot past goalie Tim Pendergast to make...