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Harvard was able to preserve its three-goal lead thanks to Ruddock, who stopped every Brown scoring opportunity, including a few breakaways and hard wrist shots from point-blank range...
...referees made highly questionable calls in Dartmouth's favor in each of the three periods. In the first, freshman goaltender Jessica Ruddock appeared to stop Dartmouth forward Jennifer Wiehn from point-blank range on the breakaway...
...first period was uneventful for Ruddock until the final three minutes, when Harvard coughed up the puck in its own end. Brown center Meredith Ostrander took a shot from point-blank range marked for an open part of the net, but the Harvard netminder was able to dive down and knock the puck away with her pads...
Late in the second period, Ruddock stopped two shots in traffic from point-blank range. Then, in one of the more dangerous Princeton chances of the day, Tiger first-liner Nikola Holmes directed a screen shot towards the open half of the net, but the puck failed to elude Ruddock's extended glove...
...Beusekom was equally impressive in the other net, stopping an onslaught of Crimson odd-man rushes and point-blank shots. She kept Princeton in the game, though her team was outshot by a 2-to-1 ratio in the first two periods. Her performance was well-received by Springer who, having practiced with the Harvard forwards for three years, knew firsthand how tough it would be to stop them...