"It was a good start," Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder said. "[But] I wish that we had shown a little more patience on offense."

The Crimson's decisions weren't perfect, and the passing got progressively worse as the game went on, cutting off some fast break opportunities.

As a result, the second half was a bit uglier than the first for Harvard. To begin, B.C. actually scored--horror of horrors--on a goal by Kris Kelleher at the 28:33 mark.

To its credit, the Crimson retaliated less than a minute later, with a low shot off the stick of Winters. But the offense never did click quite as well as it did early on, partially due to the fact that many of the starters came out for extended periods of time as the blowout was set in stone.

"The transition wasn't all that good," Kleinfelder said. "I thought that we could have done better on the fast break."

However, none of these critiques should mask the fact that Harvard played more than well enough to win yesterday. For a team that has national championship hopes, that is most assuredly a good sign.

Game Notes

Yesterday marked the first goals for two players, sophomore Chris Shortsleeve and freshman Alexis Maybank...freshman Holly Rogers injured her ankle two-thirds of the way through the first half and watched the rest of the game from the sidelines, her ankle wrapped in a large ice pack.

HARVARD, 12-2 at Alumni Stadium Harvard  8  4  --  12 B.C  0  2  --  2

G: Harvard--Winters (2), Cleary (2), Davision (2), Chelius, Schoyer, Colligan, Shortsleeve, Shumway, Maybank; B.C.--Kelleher, Taylor. A: Harvard--Colligan (2), Cleary, Davison, Winters; B.C.--Chave. S: Harvard--Schutt 3, Barghouti (8:00 second) 1; B.C--MacLeod 20.