Laxmen Go Scoreless for Half-Hour, Drop Third Straight Ivy Contest, 10-5

For the second straight game, the Harvard men's lacrosse team hit a half-hour scoring dry spell yesterday. And for the second straight game, the results were predictable.

Saturday against Penn, the Crimson of tense vanished early in the second quarter, not to return until late in the fourth, leading to a 12-7 defeat. Yesterday at the Business School Field. Harvard didn't score its first goal against Brown until 33-40 played on the way to a 10-5 loss.

Harvard, which tied for second in the Ivies last year and had most of its top players returning this season, now stands at 0-3 in its six game league season, 1-4 overall.

The Crimson, voted second in the latest New England poll, saw its high ranking slip away as the Bruins slowly constructed a 4-0 halftime edge. Only some spectacular plays by goalie. Tim Pendergast and Harvard defensemen right in front of their net kept the visitors from taking a more commanding lead by the intermission, while at the other end, the Bruins repeatedly stripped the Crimson of the ball.

Brown struck twice within 90 seconds in the second quarter to up the margin from 1-0 to 3-0. With 2:27 left in the half, Rob Littell scored from 20 feet out for the fourth tally.

Anxious to break the shutout, the Crimson started the second half fired up. Attackman Rob Hawley tested Bruin goalie Marcus Woodring just 15 seconds into the third quarter. After several minutes of pressure, he scored twice within 1:50, first off a pass from Rich Rainalai behind the net, then on a bullet from 30 feet out.

But 4-2 was the closest Harvard could get. The rest of the game was a back-and-forth trading of goals, each would-be Harvard rally quickly squashed by a Brown tally. High scoring Bruin freshman Ton Gagnon answered Hawley's goals with a pair of his own.

At the 6:19 mark of the third quarter, Gagnon carried from behind the Crimson net turned and scored from five feet out. Five minutes later, he took a pass right on the doorstep and slammed it into the twines.

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In the fourth, Harvard's 6-ft., 4-in at tackman, Steve Bartenfelder, shook the tight defense of the only Bruin bigger than him, 6-ft., 6-in. Bill Aliber, to make it 6-3. But two late goals by Rainalai, one on a two-man advantage, was all the Crimson could manage after that.

THE NOTEBOOK Harvard visits the University of Delaware Saturday... Brown, now 4-3 overall and 1-0 in the Ivies, outshot Harvard 43-22... Crimson Coach Bob Scalise (Brown '71), still holds the Bruins' game, season and career across scoring records