Whatever the case, left defender Christine Burns put the Cantabs on the board at 3:41 with a drive from the point which bounced over Connecticut goalie Debbie Kryspin's stick.

Scarcely a minute later, Sasner planted herself right in front of the net, snatched Kelly Landry's pass from wing, and deposited the puck in the net for her first goal of the night.

Then, just 27 seconds into the second period, Sasner knocked another blast past Kryspin.

"Julie Sasner is such an offensive threat as a forward, but she's so needed on defense," Dooley said. In fact, in her twelve previous years of playing hockey, Sasner had always been a forward.

"It's more natural for me there [at forward]," Sasner said. "But I am starting to like defense. I like playing where you feel like you're helping the team the most."

After UConn forward Kris Carlson notched a power play goal that squirted past Harvard goalie Tracy Kimmel to bring the score to 3-1, the Cantabs responded with their first of six unanswered tallies.

No sooner had the voice died down off the public address system, than Kelly Landry had skated in from the right and worked a Genie Simmons pass into the net, for the final goal of the period.

"Those first two periods, I think we connected on maybe five passes," Sasner said.

The Crimson banged in three quick goals in succession to start off the third stanza on a more organized note.

First Sasner and Simmons teamed up with a pretty end result--the freshman sensation's third goal of the evening.

Next, Sasner sent a long pass parallel to the net from the left, and Simmons backhanded the puck past Kryspin.

Then Katrinka Leschey passed the puck from the right to Johanna Neilson, who knocked it off the goalie's stick. After hovering in the air for a few seconds, the puck finally settled in the net.

Harvard's fifth consecutive tally came at 10:44, when Sasner looped around behind the net and scooped a her fourth of the might to bring...lead to 8-1.

Christine Dooley scored the final Crimson goal less than a minute later, with assists from Neilson and Leachey.

Freshman Tracee Whitley took over for Kimmel in goal late in the period, and yielded a goal to Lauren Fuchs at 12:33.