Andrews—who scored her biggest goals of the season in Harvard victories over Penn and NCAA-qualifying California earlier this year—is now one of just two players to score twice against Michigan State in a single game.

Harvard went with an Andrews shot on four of its first five penalty corners. The Crimson had 10 corners for the afternoon.

On both of Andrews’ goals, sophomore Tiffany Egnaczyk and junior Jen Ahn provided the push-out and stick stop, respectively. They set up Andrews with enough speed to give her a clear look on both goals.

“We’ve been practicing [the corners] a lot,” Andrews said. “The timing was good from the push-out and the stop, and it just worked.”

Harvard also unveiled new corners that it had been secretly practicing for more than three weeks.

On one of its best corner chances—its sixth—the Crimson worked the ball behind the Spartan goalkeeper with short passes, but on the final touch, a well-positioned Michigan State defender broke up the play.

Some Respect?

All of Harvard’s scoring—save for Ahn’s stick stops—was accounted for by four players who earned no form of All-Ivy recognition—Andrews, Egnaczyk, senior Philomena Gambale and junior Mina Pell.

Harvard was well represented in the All-Ivy honors, nevertheless. In all, seven players were recognized.

Freshman Jen McDavitt became the first Harvard player in 12 years to be named Ivy Rookie of the Year. McDavitt said she had expected the award to go to a Princeton player for the fourth year in a row, but that it was happy surprise.

Ahn, who made the switch from midfield to back this year and often singlehandedly shut down opposing teams’ top scorers, and junior Kate McDavitt, Harvard’s leading scorer, were the Crimson’s two First Team selections.

One surprise was that captain Katie Scott, Harvard’s sweeper and a First Team selection the past two years, only earned Second Team honors this time around. Backs were wholly underrepresented on the First Team as Ahn and Princeton’s Emily Townsend were the only defensive players named.

The entirety of Harvard’s young starting midfield earned recognition. Sophomore Shelley Maasdorp earned Second Team honors, while Jen McDavitt and sophomore Kate Gannon both received Honorable Mention.

Junior goalkeeper Katie Zacarian, who had a role in nine Harvard shutouts this year and led the league in goals against average, was a Second Team honoree. Yale goalkeeper Krissy Nesburg led the league in saves and earned the First Team spot despite giving up nearly twice as many goals per game as Zacarian. Because Harvard’s team defense was so solid, Zacarian didn’t have nearly as many chances as Nesburg to dazzle the opposition.

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