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...tourney enabled Harvard to compete against teams from across the nation and to show that Eastern women's soccer is, on the whole, superior to that of any other region in the country. UConn and UMass, the Eastern conference's other representatives, placed third and seventh, respectively...
...match." Scalise added. "Remember that our girls were trying to peak for the third time this season [after overtime victories in both the Ivy League and Eastern Tournaments] while for teams like UNC [which was awarded its region's national tournament berth and thus played its first post-season tourney this weekend], this was the post-season peak...
Harvard, the other East representative, finished third, sandwiching two-goal victories over Northern Colorado and Carolina around a semi-final loss to eventual champion Cortland. This year's tournament committee acknowledged general Eastern soccer superiority by granting two of the three at-large bids (regional tourney winners occupy nine of the 12 berths) to Eastern powerhouses--UConn and eighth-seeded UMass...
...virtue of the seeding, the Crimson would not have to play UNC, UConn, or UMass, perhaps the three strongest teams at the tourney, until the finals. The booters will face the winner of the Colorado College-Central Florida match in tomorrow's quarterfinal, and then will probably meet the unknown quantity UMSL in the semis...
Endurance and injuries may prove the decisive factors in this tight tourney. After two games in two days at the Easterns, Harvard had suffered two major casualties and could not have played a third game on the same competitive level. Netminder Janet Judge, who resembled a force-field against UConn despite a broken finger sustained in the semis, will start tomorrow with her fingers wrapped in foam rubber. "There's no way I wasn't going to play," says Judge...