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Cornell's forwards turned to the attack in the final stanza With less than seven minutes left, right wing Larry Tobin stated down the right side, found his left wing Geoff Derwin unguarded across the Lee and Derwin smashed one from about 45 feet past Blatt...
...Huskies second-stanza scoring spree continued. Sharon Stidsen upped the score to 4-1 at the 14:15 mark, while Sullivan tallied her second of the night at 18:39, as Northeastern took a 5-1 lead into the final period...
More importantly, Carrabino seems to be the only Crimson cager who doesn't treat the first half like a 20-minute warm-up period. Most of his 12 points against Dartmouth came in the first stanza, and he notched six of Harvard's six first-half points at UMass to keep the Crimson within one at the half...
Only Harvard's third-period penalty-killing (including 18 seconds of three-on-five), some great saves by freshman goaltender Grant Blair (making his varsity debut a busy one with 44 stops), and a gorgeous sweeping one-hander by Greg Britz at 12:13 of the final stanza got the Crimson out of town with a 7-4 victory...
When the second half began, the Crimson bench started chanting "defense," and slowly the play action swayed in Harvard's direction. A key running point came midway through the second stanza, when center Elaine Holpuch Blocked an Indian shot into the hands of freshman forward Lori Stewart, who started the break to Co-Captain Frenesa Hall. The stock senior guard promptly outmaneuvered three Indians under the hoop, and gave Harvard a 40-39 lead--an edge preserved until the final buzzer...