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Maybe if the tournament had voted for standard 20-minute stanzas rather than the abbreviated 18-minute ones, the Crimson could have pulled it off. Down 2-0 when the final period began, the Green line--Firkins Reed, Sue Yunick, and Vicki Palmer--came out flying, beat Eagle netminder Peggy Cameron, and sparked the skaters onto their previously absent aggressive offensive hockey...
...Vicki Palmer rush around the left defenseman that was snubbed by Cameron seemed like deja vu until Megan Berthold kept the puck in the zone and Harvard seemed to be mounting a sustained attack. Co-captain Lauren Norton's drive from the point deflected wide, but Sue Yunick was on the puck to harass the B.C. defender and to push a pass to Palmer...
...sophomore winger came from behind the net and backhanded the disc under Cameron's pads with just 1:51 gone, and Harvard was ready for more. Moments later, a Julie Starr bullet from the blueline with Sara Fischer in front and another Palmer backhand continued the Crimson pressure, but a tripping penalty at 6:58 seemed to give the Eagles just the opportunity they were looking for to turn the momentum around...
Somewhere in the realm of Beanpot emotion, Harvard seemed to lose the intangible edge that had filled the icewomen after the Palmer goal with that "we're-going-to-pull-this-off feeling." The Eagle penalty killing aroused the Chestnut-Hillers just enough to hold...
Despite showering Wesleyan netminder Lawren Soule with a get-out-your-calculator total of 23 shots in the opening stanza, the icewomen held only a slim 3-2 lead when first period buzzer sounded. Not until Norton took a feed from Vicki Palmer (who contributed a goal and three assists), eluded three Cardinal defenders, and rifled a low drive through Soule's pads at 9:49 of the second period, did Harvard show its stuff...