Laxmen Make It Five Straight Wins

Five games played. Five games won. And a winning season just on the horizon.

In the last two weeks, the Harvard men's lacrosse team has been on a tear. It has brought its record to 6-7, and made a winning season a realistic goal.

Last night, the Crimson defeated Boston College 13-9. The team travelled to the Heights, and left on a high, extending its winning streak to five.

"Against BC we played hard the whole game," junior Mike Porter said. "It was a good win heading into the weekend."

On Wednesday, the team beat C.W. Post, 11-10.

But the game certainly will not get much air time in the season ending highlight reel. It wasn't Harvard's best performance of the year.

"They were not a very good team," sophomore Spencer Rice said. "I think we played down to their level."

Post was certainly no Princeton. In fact, the Division II squad really had no business making this a close game. But a win is a win is a win. And at this juncture in the season, Harvard will take them any way it can get them.

"Although we didn't play our best, we got the win," Rice said. "And on the whole, the game was a positive experience."

If it was positive, it was also exciting.

Trailing 11-8 with under five minutes left in the game, Post made it quite interesting for the men from Cambridge. At the 10:42 mark in the final stanza, Post midfielder Dan Biordan popped in a goal.

With the score 11-9 in the Crimson's favor, Harvard Coach Anderson began to sweat.

At 13:20, Post attacker Gregg Brosokas got a good look at the net, and he didn't blow the opportunity. The scoreboard read 11-10 Harvard.

The beads were getting bigger, and the fingernails a little smaller.

Following the goal, Harvard won a key faceoff. Moving the ball well, the Crimson took some time off the clock, but with thirty ticks left, Post got the ball back.

The Post men fiddled and did-dled in Harvard's offensive zone, but just couldn't deliver. The Harvard defense clamped down and sealed the victory for the Crimson, preventing Post from getting any shots on net.

Harvard controlled the first half. Although not at its best, the Crimson was too talented for Post. Sparked by two goals from junior Mike Porter and a goal and assist each for sophomore Steve Gaffney and freshman Mike Eckert, the Johnnies took a 6-3 lead into the intermission.

In the third, Post kept the scoring even by matching Harvard's three goals. On the Harvard side, Eckert added two more goals, making the score 11-7 heading into the final quarter.