Booters Kill BU By a 10-0 Score

If we continue to play as well as we have and shoot as often as we have, the goals will come.

Coach Bob Scalise after the Harvard women's soccer team tied Springfield. 1-1, despite outshooting Springfield, 37-16.

Scalise proved himself to be a prophet yesterday afternoon as the Harvard booters completely outplayed Boston University out shooting the Terriers, 32-1.

And, as Scalise predicted, the goals did come. And come. And come, In fact, the grand total was 10, as the Crimson defense racked up its second straight shutout.

Never in Doubt

The outcome of the game was never in doubt. With three minutes and 48 seconds gone in the contest, senior striker Laura Mayer brought the ball into the right hand corner of the field. As the Terrier defense swarmed around her, she made a perfect pass to sophomore Alicia Carrillo, who put the ball right into the net for the first of her two goals.

Harvard looked like the same squad that defeated UVM, 5.0, last Saturday, rather than the tentative team that couldn't put the ball in the net against Bowdoin and Springfield. With this humiliation of BU. Harvard ups its mark to 2-1-1--the first time it's been over 500 this season.

More importantly, though, the Crimson seems to have returned to the winning style that made the booters the dominant force in the Ivy League and one of the best teams in the country last year.

"We're in our midseason form," Scalise said after the game. "We're playing together more as a team because we've had more time to work together. We're also finishing off our plays better and our shooting is in a groove."

That's putting it rather mildly. The shooting is now almost unstoppable. Over one-third of Harvard's shots ended up in the Terrier net and almost everyone got into the act.

The third and fourth goals, which came about halfway into the first stanza were sophomore standout Jenny Greeley's first tallies of the young season. He first score came courtesy of a Kelly Landry rebound that BU netminder Margie McClure couldn't handle Greeley alertly jumped on the rebounding ball and sent it sailing into the air over the leaping goalie's reach.

Greeley put her second score in the twines unassisted when she dribbled the ball downfield, faked out two Terrier backs, then once again booted a winner over McClure's outstretched arms.

Later, everyone seemed to get a piece of the action. Mayer--who assisted with the first goal--scored the second tally of the contest, also her second for the season Deb Fields and Inga Latson both put in penalty shots, and two freshmen Kathy Cox Margaret Petrella got their first Crimson tallies.

Tomorrow the booters head to Philadelphia for a warm-up match against Penn. Then tough competition against Smith. Cornell Boston College and Dartmouth will precede the critical match against powerhouse UConn. on October 9