W. Cagers Dominate Yale, 83-54

Freud was booked solid. Sybil was shifting personalities. And Robert Lewis Stevenson was too busy mixing metaphors.

So, as luck would have it, this writer was left to explain the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Like performance of the woman's basketball team this weekend.

A conflict between id and super ego?

Acute schizophrenia?

Or chemistry gone awry?

In a league marked by parity, the Crimson's 65-57 loss to Brown Friday night followed by its 83-54 win against Yale Saturday fall into the category of unexpected if not inexplicable.

The picture becomes even more complicated after taking into account Brown's two victories over Yale. Both of the Bears' victories this season came down to shots at the final buzzer.

"Nobody on the team has ever beaten Brown," junior Liz Gettleman (6 points) said. "That played on our minds."

The mental baggage of the past proved a handicap from the tip off. The Crimson (13-6 overall, 5-2 Ivy) came out tenatively.

"Against Brown we might have held back a little more than we should have," senior captain Tammy Butler (11 points) said. "We didn't apply as much pressure as we should have."

"In the Brown game, we came out conservatively," Junior Katy Davis added. "We came out on the defensive... We were playing not to lose on Friday."

Despite the tentative start, the score stood at tied at 37-37 after the first half.

The team's continuous focus on containing six foot five Brown star Martina Jerant left other Brown players open.

"It was a typical case of when you key on one person and other people step it up," Butler said.

"We spent a lot of time and energy shutting Jerant down," Gettleman said. "As a result, some of their other inside players hurt us with key baskets."

The key baskets combined with Harvard shots that wouldn't fall created the decisive deficit.

But, it was a different night, different gym, different opponent, different Crimson on Saturday.

The game against Yale featured an aggressive Harvard squad that took control from the beginning and looked back only to see the Elis lagging behind.

A 16 point halftime lead was increased to a 29 point victory.

"The starters came out totally intense," said junior Katy Davis, who posted a career high 14 points in the victory. "We had three steals in the first few minutes of the game, and that got everything else going."

"I think our defense is mainly what set the tone last night," said Gettleman (9 points).

"We need to play tough pressure defense in order to get our offense going," Davis said.

The early steals helped restore the confidence and aggresiveness that was lacking the night before.

Freshman Allison Feaster led the Harvard scoring charge with 23 points followed by Davis, while captain Tammy Butler owned the boards with 15 rebounds.

Perhaps most encouraging about the victory was the total domination displayed by the women.

"We just hadn't put teams away in the past," Butler said. "After the half we just came out like it was a 0-0 game instead of the 16 points we were up."

Although split personalities may be disasterous, in basketball two well played halves make an impressive whole.

HARVARD, 83-54 at Payne Whitney Gymnasium Harvard  34  49  --  83 Yale  18  36  --  54

HARVARD: Butler 2-10 5-6 9; Reinhard 2-4 0-0 5; James 1-2 0-0 3; Black 0-1 3-6 3; Davis 6-7 2-2 14; Feaster 9-12 5-6 23; Grossman 0-6 0-0 0; Gelman 4-8 1-2 9; Proudfit 3-8 0-0 6; Brandt 1-5 0-0 2; Gettelman 4-11 0-0 9. TOTALS 32-74 16-22 83.

YALE: Demmo 2-14 0-1 5; Offer 1-2 2-4 4; Kalich 5-17 5-8 15; Totte 0-5 0-2 0; Hardaker 1-2 1-2 4; Willaims 0-4 5-7 5; Pearson 0-1 2-2 2; Porber 5-11 9-14 19. TOTALS: 14-51 24-38 54.