The Huskies called over and played dead Saturday in Boston at the eight-ranked Harvard women's increase team powered its way to a 12-0 victory.

The Crimson was expected to crush Northeastern but the Crimson didn't expect the hosts to go down without a whimper.

The Huskies women's teams especially hockey and field hockey, are known for their rugged, physical style of play. Many of the women on Harvard's lacrosse team played Northeastern in field hockey in the full and came away with assorted bumps and bruises.

"Some of these are really tough--they're like men," joked Bambi Taylor.

Northeastern, however, has had more success at drawing blood than searing goals.

"We expected them to be a physical team, but not that good, not good ball-handlers," sophomore Stephanie Formica said.

Saturday on their home field, the Huskies were not only poor stickhandlers, but also poor brawlers--the Crimson proved to be too skilled to get into a shoving match.

"It turned out that we were so much better skill-wise that it [Northeastern's ruggedness] played no factor," senior Trina Burnham said.

Fisa Black (three goals), Kelly McBride (two), and Kate Felsen (two) led the Crimson scoring.

Harvard established its supremacy forth the start and merely toyed with its outclassed opponents as the contest wore on.

"We were kind of nice," Genie Simmons said of the "small" margin of victory, "We used this as sort of a practice game, we'll be tested soon."

The women's lax squad travels to Brown Wednesday to tackle the Bruins.

Although Brown is one of the better teams Harvard will have face in the Ivy League, the Bruins will have to off a minor miracle to reverse last year's thrashing at the hands of the Crimson.

However, an Ivy game is an Ivy game and cannot be overlooked.

"There's a lot of pressure, both physically and psychoiogically associated with say Ivy League game," Formica said.

Also, Harvard is the four-time defending league champion and every team gives that little bit extra to try to knock them off of their Crimson pedestal.

Heartless

"They have nothing to lose by playing their hearts out while we have everything to lose." Formica said.

If the Crimson continues to play with the poise and aggressiveness they demonstrated on Saturday, it seems certain that the Bruins will he powerless less to force them out of their winning ways.