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Soccer: Deep in Heart of Texas

Women's Team Goes South, Dominates National Competition

Seventy-five seconds into the second half, Mustang Meghan Lehtonen knocked a short shot past freshman Anne Browning to give Cal Poly a 1-0 lead.

Harvard had been controlling most of the game up to that point but had little to show for it; nevertheless, the Crimson didn't really feel a sense of urgency.

"We controlled the Cal Poly game more than the score reflects," Stauffer said. "We missed a lot of opportunities and their goalie was good.... As soon as they scored that goal, we really turned it on. We were just passing the ball around, never letting them get possession."

Four minutes later, Harvard got its reward. Freshman Beth Zotter dribbled the ball past the Mustang goalie, who then essentially tackled Zotter; Stauffer took the resulting penalty kick and scored.

A mere eight minutes after that, freshman Ashley Berman took a pass from Stauffer and knocked the game-winner in the net.

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"[Stauffer] headed a crosser to [Berman's] feet, she took on a couple of players, didn't look like she had much of an angle but she nailed it," Glass said.

The wins gave the Crimson momentum for its next game, for can get. Tomorrow, Harvard takes on No. 4 UConn at Ohiri Field, which will certainly be the team's toughest regular-season opponent in 1996.

The Crimson lost to the Huskies 3-0 last year, which was part of the reason Harvard didn't get an at-large NCAA bid.

"We feel really, really good, that we can play with them and that compete with them," Stauffer said. "We're psyched up for the challenge--in [past] games [against UConn] we came out with a little doubt, a little fear."

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