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Richardson had her opportunity in the third inning of the gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning...
Next Harvard fell to Yale and Penn by 1-0 scores, which dropped the team's record to 2-7 and gave the Crimson a four-game scoreless streak...
...back on April 21 when the Crimson took on the Tigers down in New Jersey. The game was scoreless for five innings, with Harvard failing to capitalize on several chances to score first. Princeton then struck three times in the sixth...
...that Harvard did, cruising through the first six games of Ivy League season, the exception being a scoreless tie at Cornell on September...
However, that is exactly what happened. From 11:06 in the first quarter to 4:04 in the second, Harvard was held scoreless. In the meantime, UVA netted eight unanswered goals...