Soccer Rises, Field Hockey Falls Against Green

HANOVER-New Hampshire--A quicker and more aggressive Dartmouth field hockey team dealt a serious blow to the Harvard squad's 1984 Ivy title hopes here this morning.

The Big Green needed just one score midway through the first half and another late in the second to topple the visiting Crimson, 2-0, before 250 partisan partisans on Red Rolfe Field.

The shut-out loss--Harvard's seventh of the year--drops the Crimson's record to 4-7 overall and 1-2 in he Ivies.

Dartmouth, meanwhile, moves to 6-4 overall and 4-0 in the league.

As a result, Harvard can, at best, only tie the Big Green for a piece of the Ivy crown.

The disappointing Harvard loss, which comes just three days after the Crimson's 1-0 upset of the nation's sixth-ranked University of Massachuestts squad, saw the Crimson miss numerous scoring opportunites in both halves.

But it was an early defensive lapse that in the end proved most costly.

With just over 20 minutes to play in the first half, the host caught the Cantab defense creeping too far forward, and Sally Crane, the Big Green's leading scorer, quickly fired a missile past Harvard's freshman goalie Kristen Abely.

The freshmen reminder misplayed the ball, and that goal, at 21;47 of the first half, was all Dartmouth would need.