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With Harvard's men's lacrosse team leading, 16-7, late in last Saturday's match against Adelphi, Crimson Coach Bob Scalise took out starting goalie and senior Co-captain Tim Pendergast for the final seven minutes, treating the veteran to cheers from the appreciative spectators and the Harvard bench...
...Pendergast turned in a typically solid performance in goal, thwarting Adelphi's attempts to get back into the game. "Tim comes to play every time," Scalise says. "He hasn't played a bad game all year...
...really young team," Pendergast says (16 of 25 players are freshmen or sophomores), "and we lost our confidence early, especially since the hardest part of the season was our first two games." The Crimson fell to national powerhouses Johns Hopkins (top-ranked so far this year). 11-3, and to nine-time defending Ivy champion Cornell, 14-9, en route to a horrid 1-5 start...
...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...
...what does a low-scoring offense do to the team's other half? "It puts a lot more pressure on the defense," Scalise says, but the unit as a whole and particularly Pendergast have responded to help turn the season around. The coach adds that "the defense has been playing a lot more consistently lately...