The Brown and Harvard lacrosse teams scored 22 goals between them yesterday. but, in the end, the game was won where the coaches say it's always won -- on defence. The visiting Bruins were able to repel a last-minute barrage of Crimson shots to hold onto a 12-10 victory at Cumnock Field.

In losing their 13th consecutive Ivy League contest. Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen wasted another strong game from the midfielders. The first line, threw in four goals yesterday, as sophomore Jim Kilkowski's hat trick led the attack: the second line accounted for three scores, crediting the midfield with 10 of Harvard's last 18 goals.

Six Bruins goals in the second quarter -- two each by co-captain George Armiger, an all American last year, and Dick Tryll -- broke the Crimson.

In a free-wheeling first period, Harvard opened up a 5-3 lead on some good heads-up play. Senior attackman Steve Neubert shoveled in a rebound amid a horde of white-shirted Bruins for the first goal, and seconds later. Tom Engel faked to his left and whipped a had 15-foot bullet past Brown's goalie for the second.

The visitors went ahead, 3-2, on two shots that made their way through a porous Harvard defense, but soon relinquished the lead. After Marty Cain flattened an unidentified Brown attackman, Kilkowski scooped up the loose ball, ran the length of the field, and bounced the ball into the right-hand corner of the net.

Midfielder Alan Timberlake bulled his way past four opponents in front of the goal seconds late to score the fourth Crimson tally. Jim Kilbreth closed the quarter -- Harvard's most productive period of the season on offense -- with a quick shot from the right side with less than a minute to go.

The six Brown goals in the second quarter came in bunches of two apiece; five of them can be attributed to a lackadaisical Harvard defense.

Setting up screens and working the ball well, the Crimson rallied in the third period to tie the score at nine-all. Kilkowski. Jim Anderson, and Charley Ames scored the goals that knotted the game going into the final period.

There cheap goals by Brown made the fourth quarter a disaster, as Harvard failed to produce the clutch scores it needed to pull out a victory. Engel, taking a great fed from Kilbreth, threw in the final Crimson goal just a minute before the gun -- but it was too late matter.