Her older sister, Francie '94, earned acclaim as a member of Harvard's Silver Anniversary field hockey team. Her twin sister, Hillary, earned a spot on the current Crimson edition. That left Yale freshman Amanda Walton searching for a way to make her own impact. YALE  3 HARVARD  2

Unfortunately for Harvard (2-4, 1-1 Ivy), Amanda gave last weekend's episode of The Waltons a happy ending for Yale. After a rousing Crimson rally from a two-goal deficit and an inspiring initial assault in overtime, Walton scored the decisive tally to give Yale (4-1, 1-1) a 3-2 win.

"I give both teams credit," said Yale Coach Marisa Didio. "Harvard is a very fine team, and they had opportunities to put us away. There were a lot of situations where they just missed."

Indeed, Harvard was ruing those lost chances, many of which came on penalty corners.

"We should have put a lot of those corners in," said junior back Katie Schoolwerth. "It's a matter of getting a good, solid shot off. We were good on initial shots, but we could've taken advantage of rebounds."

Early on, though, the Crimson had more pressing concerns. Yale junior Sue Barnes opened the scoring in the seventh minute of play, giving the visitors a lead they would maintain into the half.

After the interlude, Harvard responded with a flurry of corners--a harbinger. Unfortunately, the Crimson couldn't convert any of them--another harbinger.

"Our stops were good, but we weren't getting our shots off well," said co-captain Judy Collins. "It's something we need to work on. [Yale goalie Courtney Lane's] clears weren't that good."

The frustration seemed to continue when Yale sophomore Christine Anthony scored to make it 2-0. Yet this goal galva- nized the Crimson.

"There was a sense of urgency," Collins said."We were down by two with 23 minutes left. We hadto hurry things up."

Two minutes later, senior Penny Fairbairnproved money in the bank for Harvard, cutting thelead to 2-1. Even better, the goal came on one ofthose pesky penalty situations. It seemed that theCrimson had finally turned the corner.

After a timeout with 10 minutes to play,Harvard heightened its forays into Yale territory.And finally, its tenacity was rewarded whensophomore Maisa Badawy shot a long, gracefulellipse--her first career goal--into the Eli netto make it 2-2.

"We stepped it up and regained our composure,"said Harvard Coach Sue Caples. "We showed mentaltoughness, which is a positive sign and somethingto build on."

Harvard sought to cap this foundation withstrong and sustained sorties in overtime, but Yaledid not yield. Harvard received more corners thanan icosahedron, but could not shape them intovictory.

"We threw off a little bit of their momentum onthe corners," Didio said. "Our rusher disruptedtheir rhythm, and we used different defensivecorners the whole game."

"We got corners off; it was just a matter oftiming," Caples said. "[Lane] was just getting onthem. It's a game of inches."