Icewomen Crunch Big Green

After clinching its first-ever Ancient Eight title last Saturday, the women's hockey team continued its domination of Ivy League competition by dispatching Dartmouth, 4-1, last night in Hanover, N.H.

With the victory, the icewomen closed out their regular-season at 10-0 in the Ivies (17-3 overall), marking the first undefeated Ivy campaign in the 10-year history of women's hockey at Harvard.

Dartmouth came out fighting in the first period, drawing first blood after only five minutes of play when the Big Green's Linda Duva scored off Crimson goalie Jennifer White.

"They [Dartmouth] were up for the game. They were in it in the first period," Harvard Coach John Dooley said.

The Crimson answered the Dartmouth goal late in the opening period when freshman Char Joslin scored, assisted by Julia Trotman.

Even though Harvard scored only one goal in the opening stanza, the icewomen bombarded the Green goal with 15 shots. The Crimson allowed only 10 shots on goal for the period.

After the first period, the Crimson dominated the rest of the way. "We controlled play pretty well in the second and third periods," Dooley said.

Crimson sophomore Nina Simonds opened the second-period scoring when she tallied 6:31 into the middle frame off a feed from Lisi Bailliere.

Harvard Co-Captain Julie Sasner followed up Simonds' score with a goal of her own, assisted by sophomore Brita Lind, with just 29 seconds remaining in the period.

Dominance

Amazingly, Dartmouth was able to muster only one shot on goal in the entire second period.

Harvard completed its romp when Joslin registered an unassisted goal early in the period. Overall, White stopped seven shots on goal in the final period.

Dismissing concerns of a possible letdown after last night's easy triumph, Dooley said he was optimistic about the upcoming Ivy tournament, to begin this Saturday at Bright Center.