Call them over-confident. Call them inconsistent. Call them lucky. But a win is still a win. COLUMBIA  5 HARVARD  6

Yesterday at Ohiri Field, the Harvard women's lacrosse team (5-7, 2-4 Ivy) barely scraped out its second Ivy League victory against the Columbia Lions (5-9, 0-7 Ivy), winning 6-5.

In the last home game of their Harvard careers, tri-captain Claudia Asano and senior Clare Parker led the team with two goals apiece. Not to be left out of the action, the only other senior on the team, tri-captain Laura Dahmen, also netted one for the Crimson.

Freshmen standout Erin Kutner also played an impressive defensive game, sparking the scrappy Crimson in some critical moments.

The Crimson was a little surprised to be challenged by the Lions.

"We came out a little cocky and it didn't helpus," Kutner said. "It was really frustrating. We'dscore and do some good things, but we couldn'tkeep it going."

The Crimson jumped on the scoreboard early withAsano scoring on a free position less than aminute into the game.

Once on the board, Harvard never fell behind,but by no means did the Crimson dominate.

At the 25:00 mark, Columbia freshman TeresaMulaikal snagged a fast high pass and dished itoff to sophomore Caroline Samponaro, who scoredthe Lions' first goal.

Over the next few minutes, Harvard had severalopportunities to score, but nothing materializedfor the Crimson.

Finally Kutner took things into her own hands.Dodging the Columbia sticks, Kutner brought theball all the way down the field and found Dahmen,who netted the Crimson's second goal.

For the next ten minutes, things continued togo back and forth. No player could find the backof the cage because of some solid goalkeeping onboth sides.

Sophomore goalie Keltie Donelan demonstratedconsistency for the Crimson once again, recordingher fifth win of the season. Donelan played theentire sixty minutes and tallied six saves, not tomention silencing a few seemingly-unstoppableColumbia plays in the second half.

But the Lions' goalie put up a formidable wallof her own. Freshman goalie Gina Kline played anincredible game for Columbia, stopping 16 shots.

"A few players put in some fast shots and somewell-placed shots," Kline said. "But for the mostpart, I think we were pretty evenly matched."

Kline's aggression shut out the Crimsonattackers for the remainder of the half, butColumbia found the back of the net one last time.