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Icemen Defeat Brown, 5-2; RPI Next

All those whistles worked for the Crimson whichwent four-for-seven on the power play and killedfive of the Bruins six extra-man chances.

After Brown went ahead, junior Allen Bourbeaubrought Harvard back with two power-play goals.The center put in a pair of rebounds for his 17thand 18th scores of the year.

"I was in the right place at the right time,"Bourbeau said. "I'll take 'em, I haven't been ableto get the easy ones recently."

The Bruins came right back at the start of thesecond stanza. After Steve Armstrong was whistledfor tripping, Bruin defenseman Mike Girouard put ashot from the point past a screened McEvoy tore-tie the game and send the Bruin hordes in thestands into a frenzy.

The scrappy Bruins, despite an 11-15 markentering the game, refused to give in to thevastly more talented hosts.

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"They played over their heads," said HarvardCaptain Peter Chiarelli. "They were a much betterteam than the one we played earlier in the year."

Ten minutes later, Harvard senior Tim Barakettbroke out of six-game goal-scoring slump withanother Crimson power-play lamp-lighter. The 3-2lead would hold up the rest of the way, givingBarakett his 10th game-winner of the year.

It fell to junior Lane MacDonald, who scored ahat trick Friday, to put the game away. The juniorslammed in his 34th goal of the year at the 11:31mark of the third period to give Harvard a 4-2lead.

MacDonald also had three assists giving the HobeyBaker finalist (unclear) points on the year (a two-point-a-gameaverage) and the 10th best single-season total inHarvard history. MacDonald also moved into fifthplace on the Crimson career7CrimsonBruce M. KluckhohnHarvard forward LANE MACDONALD cruises downthe ice in the Crimson's 5-2 ECAC quarterfinalvictory over Brown Saturday. Harvard will cruiseto the ECAC semifinals against RPI Friday.

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