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Harvard shot only 37 per cent from the floor in the opening stanza and quickly fell behind the hot-shooting Cornell team, 16-4, after only six minutes. Pete Call, who only averaged 9.3 points per game all season for the Redmen, picked up eight points in the opening Cornell splurge...
Harvard stayed within range until period two, but Cortland's Nancy Owen broke the game open with two quickies. Owen took advantage of some loose play around the Crimson net 31 seconds into the stanza, then fired the puck past Nelia Worsley's glove side from about 20 feet to make the score...
Castraberti's goal made it 6-4 and killed much of the momentum that had sparked strong play from the icemen in the final stanza. The Crimson came into the third not only trailing 5-2, but having to kill off penalties which left it two men down for 1:26 and a man shy for 34 seconds...
Harvard played one of its best body-checking periods of the season in the first stanza as the Crimson countered Dartmouth's precision passing and swarming offense. Dartmouth cooled Harvard's aggressiveness when Chip Bettencourt fired a wrist shot from the slot into the gaping upper left corner...
...upped the margin to four again on a shot that flew by Worsley's stickside with one second left in the stanza...