into the net from the left doorstep.

It was clear how valuable the two freshmen were to the Crimson when they left the squad briefly in march to join their respective national teams at the World Championships in Finland--where Botterill and the Canadians avenged the loss at Nagano by defeating Ruggiero and the United States in the

championship game.

Without Botterill, 7th-place Princeton took Harvard to overtime before Ruggiero bailed out the Crimson with the game-winning goal in the extra period. After Ruggiero joined Botterill in Finland, Harvard barely survived eighth-place Cornell with a 3-2 victory in the ECAC Tournament quarterfinal.

Ruggiero and Botterill joined Mleczko and Shewchuk on the All-America, ECAC and Ivy League First Teams. The ECAC and Ivy League both selected Botterill as the 1998-99 Rookie of the Year, which she certainly deserved, but so did Ruggiero.

To set the record straight, then, The Crimson has named Angela Ruggiero and Jen Botterill as its 1998-99 co-rookies of the year.