Icewomen Swipe Two in Maine

The 1986-'87 Harvard women's hockey team, undefeated in league play, is gunning its way toward the Ivy League Championships. But this weekend, the Crimson took a break from the Ancient Eight and took to the road, where it notched a pair of solid wins against Colby, 13-0, and Bowdoin, 7-3.

"They were practice games," said freshman powerhouse Charlotte Joslin, who scored two goals in each game.

Another freshman, Wendy Millet--who made her scoring debut with two goals Sunday at Colby--also tagged the games as opportunities to prepare for the squad's upcoming, and final, Ivy League contests against Princeton and Dartmouth. "We were trying to work on the man-down and the power play because that's where we were weak against Cornell," Millet said.

The otherwise routine weekend jaunt was marked, however, by a scoring milestone. At yesterday's game against Bowdoin, Co-Captain Julie Sasner replaced Kathy Carroll in second place on the all-time Crimson scoring list.

Sasner, who recorded a hat trick at Colby and added two tallies against Bowdoin to up her career total to 58, now trails only Diane Hurley in goal scoring.

Interestingly enough, when Sasner surpassed Carroll's all-time point record at the Bowdoin game, Carroll herself was in attendance. Carroll's younger sister, who plays for Bowdoin, scored the only Polar Bear points of the game.

"Colby and Bowdoin were good games to get everyone involved," Sasner said. sharing the point scoring wealth Sunday night were Sasner and Johanna Neilson (three goals apiece), Joslin and Millet (two goals), Karen Carney, Brita Lind, and Nina Simonds (one each).

Colby played a rougher game than the Crimson, registering seven penalties to Harvard's one.

White Mule goalie Paige Alexander stopped 48 Crimson shots over the course of the contest. Harvard netminder Jen White made 12 saves, while Yardling goalie Julie Carter garnered three saves during 12 minutes of game time.

Monday afternoon Joslin, Sasner, Lind, Julia Trotman, and Lisi Bailliere teamed up for seven goals against the Polar Bears.

Getting geared up for the Bowdoin contest was made difficult by the fact the Colby had twice beaten Bowdoin earlier in the season. "We played down to their level," Joslin said.

The icewomen now can concentrate on the Ivy League--and Princeton and Dartmouth. The squad needs only a win or tie in its next two games to take the Ivy League Championships for the first time in the 10-years history of Harvard women's ice hockey.

The Crimson also stands a good chance of advancing to the ECAC playoff--either as a wild card, or as an automatic entry if it wins the post-season Ivy Tournament.