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...success during the season but that wouldn't have mattered if we had lost today," said co-captain A.J. Mleczko, the MVP of the ECAC Tournament, Ivy League and ECAC. "We realized that we needed to come out and put our hearts on the line and see what we were made of. UNH showed a lot of character with two quick goals in the third period but luckily we were able to tie it up and ultimately...
...Harvard controlled the puck for most of the 75 seconds of overtime and outshot UNH 4-0. The game-winner came after sophomore winger Tammy Shewchuk intercepted the puck in the offensive zone and immediately found Mleczko at the right post. Mleczko fired but was stopped twice by UNH junior goaltender Alicia Roberts, who ended up sprawled on the ice. Mleczko then pulled back the puck and sent it high into the net to give Harvard the conference title...
...took a few more swipes than I would have liked to on that play," Mleczko said. "Tammy found me in front with a great pass, and I thought Roberts would slide by me, so I tried to go to the short side. But she was there again and again and neither of us could control the puck, and finally I was able to get it over her. It was definitely a feeling of elation...
Leading the Harvard offense will be co-captain A.J. Mleczko (32, 72), the nation's leading scorer and one of three finalists for the Kazmaier Award for player of the year. Mleczko can handle the puck at the blue line and in the seam and has plenty of options on the wings in linemates Botterill and sophomore Tammy Shewchuk (46, 46) who leads the country in goal scoring. That line contains the three highest scorers in the nation...
...broke the women's NCAA single-season scoring record earlier this year, surpassing Cornell's Cindy Schlaepher's 89 points in 1976-77. Mleczko is closing in on the overall single-season mark of 116 points set by North Dakota's Tony Hicks...