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W. Hockey Falls Short at Frozen Four

After gritty win, Crimson ends up in third place

Harvard played 2,112 minutes of hockey this year.

It wants three of those minutes back.

That's all the time it took Minnesota-Duluth to score three times and break a 1-1 third period tie en route to a 6-3 semifinal win. The Bulldog victory ended the Crimson's drive for a second national championship.

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"There was a ten minute period in the third where we turned it on offensively, got a lot of shots on net and put the puck in the goal," said Duluth Coach Shannon Miller. "We just took control of the game. We earned that victory."

The Bulldogs opened the third with three goals 2:28 apart to take a 4-1 lead. Harvard could not recover.

Duluth sophomore Maria Rooth, who scored three goals and added an assist, converted on a poor Crimson clearing attempt at 7:52 of the third to make it 5-1 before Harvard mounted a comeback.

Shewchuk founded Botterill all alone on the doorstep to cut the defecit by one with 9:05 remaining.

Just 1:21 later, Shewchuk made it 5-3, pouncing on a Jamie Hagerman rebound after the sophomore defenseman pinched in from the point to apply pressure.

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