Icewomen Trip Terriers for 4-2 Win; Carroll Nets Two in Offensive Assault

During Saturday's 8-2 loss at Princeton, it looked like the Harvard women's ice hockey team left its passing game in Cambridge. So the icewomen spent much of Monday practicing stick-to-stick passing.

But the Crimson came home and put on a passing exhibition in yesterday's 4-2 win over Boston University at Bright Center. Led by Kathy Carroll's two goals, as well as the passing of Sue Newell and Deb Taft; the icewomen overcame an early 1-0 deficit to control the game.

The impressive win raised the Crimson's record to 3-1, while the previously unbeaten Terriers fell to 5-1. Harvard, which managed just 14 shots on goals in Saturday's loss, clearly dominated yesterday's match, taking 53 shots compared to B.U.'s 24.

"The whole idea, after the Princeton game, was to get a lot of shots," Carroll said afterwards. "Today we were moving the puck around well and taking those shots."

But the B.U. offense got off the first shot that counted. With 9:41 left in the first period, the Terriers' Lisa Cowen took the puck from teammate Deb Cantreau, skated past two Crimson defenders, and put it past the outstretched stick of goalie Cheryl Tate.

Carroll went on to spark the Harvard attack when she squeezed the puck past B.U. goalie Lisa Whitcomb, with just 1:17 remaining in the opening period. Standing in front of the Terrier goal, the junior forward took the puck from Newell and Taft, who brought it the length of the ice oh precise passes.

"That first goal was just beautiful," Harvard Coach John Dooley said. "It came off just as we had planned. Sue [Newell] and Deb [Taft] just played the best games of their lives."

The Crimson came out in the second period the same way they had ended the first: keeping presure on the B.U. defense. With only 52 seconds gone, Carroll took a pass from Jennifer White and smacked her second goal past Whitcomb.

Dinny Starr put the Crimson's third goal of the day in the B.U. twines just two minutes later. Unassisted, Starr took the puck from behind the Terrier net and snuck it by Whitcomb.

After a B.U. goal at the end of the second period closed the score to 3-2. White put Harvard up 4-2 with 16:44 left in the game.

We knew we were facing an excellent goalie, "Dooley said, "So we figured we'd need to make a lot of shots. That was really the key to the win."

In the midst of this offensive field-day came an outstanding performance from Tate. The Crimson's junior goalie finished the game with 24 saves, holding off a late B.U. offensive assault with 14 saves in the final period.

THE NOTEBOOK: The icewomen will play one of the East's top-ranked teams Thursday, when they face New Hampshire. Game time is 7:30 at Bright Center.