Laxwomen Roll On

The Harvard women's lacrosse team made it an even dozen yesterday in Providence, romping to a 16-7 victory over a psyched but outclassed bunch from Brown and raising its record to 12-0.

The Bruins' seven-goal performance was the highest this year by an Ivy League opponent against the Crimson, who will look to clinch the Ivy title this weekend in Ithaca.

Annie MacMillan came up with the game's first tally only 31 seconds into the game, but Brown stormed back to tie the score only 19 seconds later as Pat Logue beat the Harvard defense with an unassisted score.

Bewildered

Francesca Den Hartog, the leading Crimson scorer, broke the tie five minutes later, taking Maureen Finn pass from behind the net, beating a bewildered Bruin defender to the inside, and nicking the upper right corner of the net.

Despite another unassisted effort by MacMillan at 7:43. Brown refused to roll over and play dead. Deb Stutevant and Darcy Franald led the Bruins, who are still looking for their first win this year, back to a 3-3 stalemate.

The Crimson, however, did not choke, worry or whine, and Den Hartog, Maureen Finn, and Wisty Oppenlander scored three unanswered goals to give Harvard a lead it would not relinquish.

"The team wasn't worried." Den Hartog said of the tied score. "We just said to ourselves. 'Okay, lets get it together and get going.' We knew we could pall it off."

By half time the sophomore from Eliot House had completed her hat trick with a goal to spare and the Crimson had control of the game with a 9-4 lead.

The second half was more of the same, as co-captain Chris Sailer notched her first goal of the year, and Finn and Oppenlander completed hat tricks of their own.

Off Day

Despite the lopsided score, the Crimson was not in top form in Providence, especially in the first half the team was outhustled by Brown, who like all Harvard's opponents came with the intention of knocking off the number three ranked team in the country.

"Every team we play is psyched to play us." MacMillan said afte the game.

But so far no one has been psyched enough.