To the Semis

How close? If hockey were a dance, Saturday'sgame would have been a tango, one team whisperingin the other's ear.

Of course, those whispered words would havebeen none too sweet. These teams play differentbrands of hockey. Harvard is the skating squadron,RPI the goon platoon.

"They should be wearing us down--they're sobig," Crimson Coach Bill Cleary said. "But let metell you, everyone says we're midgets, but you'vegot to catch us to hit us."

In the first two periods, Harvard and RPIbatted goals back and forth like ping-pong balls.Bruce Coles scored for RPI with two minutes gonein the game. Ted Donato came back on the powerplay and put it into the RPI net eight minuteslater.

Donato scored again on a power play with twominutes left in the opening period. Joe Juneautied it up with a shot from in close a minutelater.

Back and forth.

"Harvard's a team that can put a couple ofthorough-breds out there at a level that wecan't," RPI Coach Mike Addesa said.

But in the end, hard work, not God-giventalent, may have been the difference in Saturday'sgame.

"It comes down to who works harder, and I thinkwe outworked them in the last period," Armstrongsaid.

Oh, and don't forget a little luck. Right,Andy