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...referee let the teams skate out the penalty-free final period. The Wildcats filled the Harvard nets four more times before the buzzer sounded, with sophomore Lisa Bent joined the scoring parade twice...
Right wing Ginny Simonds found the net with only 51 seconds remaining, giving the Crimson a slim one-goal lead. Simonds collected the misdirected clearing shot of Bowdoin netminder Suzanne Walker, which had hit the skate of a defender, and the Harvard junior beat Walker for the go-ahead goal...
...shuffling the lines around, we got the feeling that it was a whole new game [against Colby]," Stickles said. "And we did skate much better as a team...
...That's the best line I've seen in a while," Vermont Coach Mike Gilligan said. "We didn't have anyone who could skate with them...
...Boitano and Witt, moreover, skating together represents a pragmatic compromise between getting an audience and pursuing their true calling, solo performance. Says Witt: "We each have two solos per show. But we also do partner skating, which is totally different." The moves in pair skating are much closer to dance and emphasize carrying and tossing the female partner rather than individual jumps and spins. Thus the genre is at once less athletic than what Boitano and Witt are used to and far more athletic than what they can achieve together without years of practice. Witt, who is not pushing herself...