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...score at the half was Harvard, 24-16. Dartmouth shot 83 per cent from the field, and 86 per cent from the line. The only thing was, the Green only took six shots. Each team pulled down a grand total of three rebounds in the slow-motion first stanza...
Cornell--which skated two lines for most of the 60 minutes following the second stanza--came back with two goals in the last six minutes of regulation play, including a short-handed tally by co-captain Brenda Condon with two minutes left. But Bill Duthie's squad, led by Ivy scoring champ Marg Degidio, could not convert on a 43-second, five-on-three advantage in the first extra period and numerous other changes in overtime...
Harvard kept within range in the first half Saturday, almost entirely because of Fleming and freshman forward Joe Carrabino, who combined for 30 of the team's 34 points. But the eight-point halftime deficit expanded gradually in the second stanza when the Quakers clamped down on Fleming. Carrabino lost the hot hand (he finished six for 15) and a Penn press leveled all hopes of a comeback...
...from Firkins Reed and Julie Start, and it was anyone's hockey game. But the Crimson, who outskated the Big Green for most of the emotional and physical contest, failed to capitalize when it counted late in the third period, despite outshooting the visitors, 7-1, in the final stanza...
Although Olson's tally had brought the Crimson to within 3-2 at 6:58 of the middle stanza, it took fine play from Whiston the rest of the way to keep the game that close...