Crimson Six Stops Penn, 7-3

PHILADELPHIA, PA.--The outcome was never really in doubt. The Crimson icemen struck for the first five goals of the game, four in the opening period, and skated off with a convincing 7-3 victory over Penn yesterday here at the Class-of-'23 rink.

Harvard opened up a quick 2-0 first period lead, as co-captain Bob Goodenow and linemate Jim Thomas scored within six seconds of each other. Goodenow's tally at 4:20 came on a perfect pass across the goal mouth by Randy Roth. Thomas received an assist from the Quakers and handed it to Thomas, who put it past Penn goalie Tony Ciresi.

Kevin Carr, centering a line of Steve Dagdigian and Jim McMahon, scored unassisted from a face-off at 13:35. Dagdigian, assisted by Carr and McMahon, scored the first of his two goals, with only 1:02 left in the period.

Penn had two excellent chances in the first period as Gary Lyte missed the net and hit the post on a pair of clean breaks. Harvard's forechecking prevented the Quakers from getting on the scoreboard until halfway through the second period, and limited Penn to just four opening stanza shots, while the Crimson got off ten at Ciresi.

Ciresi, sporting a red mask with a white strip down the center, ala Doug Savell of the Flyers, played a strong game despite the score, sweeping aside 33 Crimson shots. But while Ciresi played well, so did his counterpart over at the other end of the ice.

Aiken Debuts

Sophomore netminder John Aiken, who had his first varsity start for the Crimson yesterday had the crowd buzzing and the Quakers frustrated.

Aiken, although he faced only 15 shots, made some big saves, including two on breakaways by Brian Jacks and Ed Parkinson.

In the second period, the Crimson powerplay with Goodenow and sophomore Todd Nieland on the points and Roth, McMahon and Dagdigian up front, clicked for a pair of goals in five attempts. McMahon gave Harvard a 5-0 lead at 5:59 of the second period, 52 seconds after Penn's Peter Roche left the ice for tripping.

Penn responded with a pair of middle stanza goals by Paul Stewart at 10:03 and by Jacks at 16:54, to narrow the lead to three. But that was as close as Penn was to get all afternoon.

Dagdigian deflected a Roth shot at 44 seconds into the third period to give himself and the Crimson powerplay a second goal of the day, tallying a four-goal bulge for Harvard.

Sophomore Danny Bolduc, getting the puck from linemates Ted Thorndike and Leigh Hogan finished the scoring for Harvard at 9:46 on a great rush past the Quaker defensemen. The puck slipped past Ciresi and Bolduc's momentum sent him crashing into the boards.

Parkinson avenged Aiken's earlier save on a breakaway by notching a token third goal for Penn late in the period. But it was a case of too little, too late for Bob Crocker's 1-2 Quakers.