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True to form, the Boston Garden at dinnertime on the first two Mondays of February 1982 was not the place to be. Unless, perhaps, you were a rabid Harvard-hater and enjoyed watching the Crimson lose even in amazingly boring style. The opener versus B.U. was a 5-1 Terrier rout even less close than the score indicated. Jack Parker's men checked Harvard relentlessly, slowing down the Cantabs until they looked like zombies...
Dinny Starr put the Crimson's third goal of the day in the B.U. twines just two minutes later. Unassisted, Starr took the puck from behind the Terrier net and snuck it by Whitcomb...
Carroll went on to spark the Harvard attack when she squeezed the puck past B.U. goalie Lisa Whitcomb, with just 1:17 remaining in the opening period. Standing in front of the Terrier goal, the junior forward took the puck from Newell and Taft, who brought it the length of the ice oh precise passes...
With a record like that, Terrier Coach Jack Parker, in his tenth season as B.U.'s mentor, had some trouble comprehending what happened to his team Wednesday night. He gave his players a chewing out in the locker room after the game; responding to reporter's questions later, he was still to get his thoughts together, Instead he kept repeating himself: "We made mistake and Harvard played well...We made more mistakes, and Harvard played very well...We made a hell of a lot of mistakes." He found other words in describe his team's play (Harvard scored four power...
Carrying a 9-4 Crimson lead into his match, the 142-lb, McNerney faced off against Terrier Tri-Captain Mike Enzien. Finding himself behind, 11-6, going into the final period. McNerney lived up to his seventh-place national ranking--according to Amateur Wrestling News--by rebou for six unanswered points to claim a hard fought 12-11 decision...