Harvard’s two goal-scorers yesterday aren’t just talented finishers. Evidently, they’re also gifted fortune-tellers.

Junior forward Emily Colvin, who opened the Crimson’s scoring with the first goal of her career, wasn’t worried before her first Harvard start—at least not about how she’d play.

“Before the game, I was thinking, ‘Well, what if I score? What am I going to do?’” Colvin said. “But I didn’t plan anything. I was just excited. I didn’t plan ahead. I should have planned ahead.”

Meanwhile, junior Alisha Moran—who recorded the Crimson’s other two tallies—focuses on improving one aspect of her game every time she plays.

Guess what she chose yesterday.

“I actually said, ‘I want to score some goals,’” Moran recalled. “I was like, ‘I want to finish the ball,’ [and] it happened. I’m happy.”

So, Alisha, what can we expect to see in Friday’s game versus Stanford?

“[Me] winning punts, because it kept bouncing like a foot over my head.”

Left is Right

Most of Harvard’s second-half attacks came down the left flank, with captain and left back Caitlin Fisher initiating many of them.

Early in the half, Fisher drew the (loud) ire of Crimson coach Tim Wheaton when she declined to play a long ball toward the corner flag.

For the rest of the game, she sent brilliant balls over the top of the Vermont defense at nearly every opportunity.

Fisher was joined on the left side by senior midfielder Katie Westfall, who frequently floated over to take on defenders and create more havoc in the Catamount end.

“What we were trying to do was get behind the defense, even if it wasn’t a good ball to feet or someone laying it in so they could first-touch get a cross off,” Westfall said. “They were pushing their line up, so we just tried to hit it to the corner flag, get them facing their own goal and then lock them in.”

Moran’s second goal came off a cross by senior striker Alisa Sato from the left side.