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...Crimson seemed to come out a different team after the break. Two quick shots inside by sophomore off guard James White started the attack, and Harvard played BC even for much of the second stanza...
Despite committing 17 turnovers in the first stanza, and despite the talent of its foe--a Holy Cross team that was a consensus pick to take top honors in the Patriot League--Harvard was only down by three...
That length metamorphosed into the wing-span of an albatross in the second half as Holy Cross scored on its first three possessions of the stanza to put the score...
...last stanza, Dalhousie got lucky with an open-net goal when Tracy was knocked down by freshman defender Geb Marett on a confusing cross-ice streak by scorer Dalhousie...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...