Never say Gillian Raney can't pick her spots.

Raney, a 5-ft. 8-in. freshman guard/forward with a 4.2 points per game average, led the Harvard woman's basketball team to a 66-38 victory over Brown in the first round of the Ivy League Championship Tournament yesterday in New Haven, Conn.

Raney scored 14 points, high for the game, and grabbed eight rebounds, also a game high, in the Crimson rampage over that Bruins at Yale's Payne-Whitney Gymnasium.

"I seem to be sporadic. It could just be the fact that it's a tournament I can get up for," Raney said.

Coach Carole Kleinfelder was pleased with the win, but thought the hoopsters could have played better.

"It was sluggish. Neither team played very well, but we did have a good spurt near the end of the first half to pull away. It was a good game to get rid of first game jitters," she said last night.

Harvard will face Yale in the semi-finals today, as the Bulldogs trounced Cornell, 82-42, last night. Earlier in the season, the Crimson also demolished the Big Red, 70-33.

Harvard

Curry 4-6, 1-2 9, Carle 5-8, 0-2 10; Meyers 2-7, 0-0 4; Holpuck 3-9, 4-6 10; Smith 4-9, 2-2 10; Field 1-2, 0-0 2; Bernstein 1-5, 0-0 2; Raney 7-12, 0-0 14; Woolery 1-7, 1-2 3; Warren 0-4, 0-0 0; Belshe 1-3, 0-0 2.

Young 2-10, 0-0 4; Moorcroft 2-6, 1-3 5; Lagos 1-11, 1-1 3; Wurtz 5-15, 3-7 13; Stratton 2-9, 0-0 4; Holmes 0-1, 1-3 1; Welch 1-3, 0-0 2; Kondo 1-1, 0-0 2; Rubin 2-6, 0-0 4.

Havard 37 29-66

Brown 22 16-38

The cagers didn't face much of a test in yesterday's contest. They dominated from start to finish--an early lead expanded to a 37-22 bulge by halftime.

Wendy Carle, Elaine Holpuch and Karen Smith all popped for ten points in a typically balanced scoring attack. Caryn Curry, the dependable junior captain had seven assists in addition to her nine points.

Raney immediately pounced right on her opportunity to shine, hitting ten points in the first half. Her seven for 12 percentage from the field and Carle's five for eight shooting presented a marked contrast in the Bruins' efforts.