Icewomen Humbled By Dartmouth, 4-2

Despite a valiant third-period effort, the Harvard women's hockey team chalked up their second Ivy League loss and their fourth overall, losing to Dartmouth last night in Hanover, 4-2.

Playing without senior Tania Huber, who is out for the season with a knee injury, Harvard kept close; outshooting Dartmouth 17 to 16, with stellar performances by Liz Ward at right wing and Diane Hurley at right defensive wing.

Dartmouth came out strong at the start of the game, as Big Green wing Julia Nye put home the first of her two goals, 20 seconds into the first period, taking a rebound and pushing it by Harvard goalie Cheryl Tate. At 13:04, Dartmouth skated by two Harvard defenders for an unassisted, shorthanded goal. Nye scored her second goal at 17:11, on yet another rebound off a Tate save by the first break.

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During the second period, the Big Green team slowed down. Although the reviving Crimson held Dartmouth scoreless for the next 20 minutes, it failed to put anything in the Big Green twines itself.

During the third period, however, Harvard played a much more aggressive brand of hockey. Sue Newell scored first for Harvard at 4:47 of the third period on an assist by Jennifer White. Less than two minutes later, Ward converted on a Hurley pass to give Harvard its second tally.

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A flurry of penalties on both sides followed, with Harvard captian Julie Starr being put in the box for tripping at 6:28, and Dartmouth's Mary Deangelis and Harvard's Firkins Reed for interference and high-sticking, respectively, at 17:47.

This left Harvard with only three players on the ice to Dartmouth's four, and the Crimson was forced to resort to desperate measures, taking out goalie Tate and sending in another attacker.

This ploy proved fatal, however, when defenseman Paula Joyce of Dartmouth saw an opening with 42 seconds left to play, and shot the puck straight into the Crimson net from near her own goal, bringing the score to 4-2 and clinching the victory for Dartmouth.

The icewomen will play Colby on January 14 in the last home game before finals.