Laxwomen Set to Face Owls in National Tourney

While the rest of Harvard is bracing itself for the last push to final exams, the women's lacrosse team will face its toughest test of 1982 during reading period, travelling this weekend to the National Championships at West Chester State College, just outside of Philadelphia.

The laxwomen, however, have been to the City of Brotherly Love before in an extended lacrosse mid term exam over spring break, they chalked up a 4-1 record against some of the strongest competition in the country, and erased all doubts, that 1982 would he merely a rebuilding year.

During that week, Harvard upset Upenn, who will be seeded first in this weekend's tourney, by a score of 8-7, and knocked off the tournament's fifth seed, Maryland, 6-3.

Harvard's only loss came at the hands of Temple, who with the help of the flu; which plagued some of the Crimson, routed the lax-women, 10-2. Ironically enough, the seventh-seeded lax women will get a chance to reanswer the part of the mid-term they blew and face the second-seeded Owls for all the marbles in the first round of the tournament, today at 4 p.m.

Although there were no reports of the flu circulating through the ranks of the team Yesterday, Maureen Finn, who received a bad Charlie horse weekend at the first-round of tryouts for the All-New England team, will be on the sidelines this afternoon.

Replacing Harvard's leading scorer this year (Finn has 53 goals, 34 assists to date) will be j.v. standout Jennifer Stonestreet who will play third home.

Second home Francesca Den Hartog, Harvard's second leading scorer, will be called on to pick up a great deal of the slack left by "Mo's" absence Jennifer White. who had a bunch of hat tricks in the middle of the season, but who has cooled off of late. will play first home and could be the key to Harvard's chances this weekend.

White explained yesterday that Finn's loss may not be as detrimental as some think. "I've felt in the last two or three practices that our mood has really picked up," she said. "The attack has been really free-flowing and creative.".

Since the last weekend's disheartening 15-9 loss to Penn State (seeded third this weekend), the team's attitude has improved in general as Carole Kleinfelder's charges have been working on what they describe as "their" game.

"We've been trying to force the ball down the field quickly." goalkeeper Charlotte Worsley said yesterday. "We've been trying to vary our passes and find the open player: It's just a question of getting it together to beat Temple. I think every team here has a chance to win the tournament.".

Harvard, however, is not looking ahead. "We want revenge-blood revenge." co-Captain Annie MacMillan said yesterday, for the second time this year. The first time the team was out for blood, the Crimson avenged an 8-7 loss to Yale with a 14-3 thrashing of the Elis in the first round of the Easterns-which Harvard eventually won..