Word: shewchuk
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...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...
...After the timeout, Stone sent in her power-play unit of Mleczko, Shewchuk, sophomore forward Angie Francisco and freshman standouts Jen Botterill and Angela Ruggiero. UNH junior winger Melissa McKenzie iced the puck with 1:22 left in regulation, and that set the stage for one of the best-executed goals of the season...
...Shewchuk won the ensuing faceoff to Ruggiero beyond the right circle. Ruggiero's initial slapshot was blocked, but the nation's highest-scoring defenseman reclaimed the puck, walked around a UNH defender and threaded a spectacular cross-ice pass to Shewchuk, who was all alone at the left post. The nation's leading goal scorer one-timed the puck past Roberts to even the score...
...wide open backdoor, Angela saw a clear lane and gave me a terrific pass and it was a great play," Shewchuk said. "I was just hoping to get my stick on it, and Roberts was out of position, so it just went...
...Before Shewchuk's goal, Harvard found itself in a very unusual position. The Crimson had not trailed with less than 100 seconds in a game since the last time it traveled to Brown's Meehan Auditorium--Nov. 15, when it suffered its only loss of the season at the hands of Tara Mounsey and the Bears...