Crimson Stickmen Roll Over Dartmouth, 19-5; Earn 10th Victory in Season's Final Contest

The sun-drenched Business School Field was a perfect place to spend Saturday afternoon for everyone but the Dartmouth stickmen. They had their day ruined by the home-standing Crimson lacrosse team, which closed out its season by walloping the visitors, 19-5.

It was supposed to be a tightly contested affair between two top-twenty teams, and for a while that's how it worked out. Two minutes into the game, attackman Jack Brennan gave the Big Green an early 1-0 lead.

But Billy MacKenzie fed the ball to Jerry Keleher for the tying tally, and Bruce Bruckmann connected on a man-up opportunity to give Harvard the lead. Less than a minute later, Steve Martin scored with a rebound and the Crimson led, 3-1, after one period.

Taking Control

In the second quarter, the home team took complete control. After Harvard missed several beautiful shots in another man-up situation, Bill Tennis scored to build the lead. The Crimson kept swarming after loose balls and outshot Dartmouth in the period, 20-6.

After ten minutes, the lead was up to 7-1, but Steve O'Neil scored for the visitors to cut the lead to five. In the next six minutes, however, the Crimson stickmen made sure that Dartmouth would get no closer.

Freshman Jamie Egatsi, playing on midfield for the first time this year, fired a blinding long shot past the Dartmouth goalie. Then Tennis took the ball wide left and beat his man one-on-one for another tally.

Hey, Chico

Martin fed the ball to Bill Forbush for the tenth goal, and Mackenzie passed the ball to Chris Doherty out front. The big midfielder dodged past three men and beat the goalie with a bounce shot. Harvard lead at the half, 11-2.

The visitors seemed to have some fight left in their halftime huddle, but the Crimson quickly stomped that out of them, too. Only 11 seconds into the second half, Mackenzie scored to build the lead to 10, and less than a minute later Tennis beat his man from the left again. Harvard led, 13-2, and starting goalie Jim Michelson retired to the bench.

Dartmouth got three tallies against Michelson's replacement, Ken First, but couldn't get Tennis out of the spotlight. In the final quarter of his career, he had three goals and one assist. He notched eight points on the day, raising his season total to 63 and finishing ninth on the Harvard career scoring list with 101.