Bruins Shock Icewomen

Twice during the game, Kelly Landry had scored in the waning seconds of a period.

Now with Brown's Patty Nawrocki in the penalty box and five seconds left in a 2-2 game. Landry found herself in the same position. She had the puck on the edge of the crease in good position to give the Harvard women's hockey team the victory.

But this time she couldn't lift the puck past the off-balance Bruin netminder, Mara Spaulder, and Saturday's game at Bright Center went into sudden-death overtime.

The overtime was all Brown. The Bruins buzzed the Crimson net repeatedly. And even with Harvard's All-Ivy goalie Cheryl Tate keeping back the tide, the visitors managed to put the game on ice with a game-winning goal halfway through the overtime.

The three Crimson defensemen, exhausted from more than a game of double shifting, couldn't stop the Bruins from generating good scoring opportunities. At 6:57 of the extra period, right wing Lisa Bishop took a pass in the crease from center Margaret Corcoran, who had dug the puck out of the right corner boards and made the final score 3-2.

"I never saw a puck move so slowly," Bishop said. "I got the pass and just hammered it. It hit her [Tate's] shoulder, the post and landed on the goal line. Then it dribbled in."

Setback

The loss dropped Harvard's Ivy record to 1-1 and dealt a mild blow to its Ivy hopes. The Crimson had forseen Princeton and Dartmouth--the victim of Harvard's first contest--as its toughest opposition.

The team knew its biggest weakness was its lack of depth and experience, and the extra period forced the tired and green Crimson into a pressure-filled situation.

"Inexperience hurt us," said Harvard Coach John Dooley after the contest. "None of them have played in overtime. You have to go for the jugular....We lost to a good team and a team that worked harder."

The Bruins also hit harder. In what is supposed to be non-checking sport. Brown took full advantage of its superior size and strength. The Harvard players were knocked around throughout the game, and by the end of the match they had to have been feeling the effects of all that extra-legal contact.

Not Fazed

The Bruins' strong-arm tactics didn't faze fiesty right wing Landry, though.

Late in the first period Harvard center Kathy Carroll took the puck deep in her own end. She skated all the way to the right side of the Brown right circle, spun and fed her trailing wing Landry for the score with 16 seconds left.

With three seconds remaining in the second stanza, Landry took a pass from Deb Taft in the center just over the Bruin blue line. From there she skimmed a 35-foot shot past Spaulder for a go-ahead goal.

But the exhausted Crimson icewomen couldn't hold off the Bruins, as time and checks took their toll.

THE NOTEBOOK: The Bruins outshot Harvard, 31-22....The Crimson has no time for reflection as they travel to Boston College to take on the Eagles tonight at 2.30 p.m.