(From http://www.goblackbears.com)



March 3, 2001
HARVARD SKATES PAST MAINE 8-2


ORONO, MAINE--Harvard University scored five third period goals to break
open a 3-1 game and defeat the University of Maine women's ice hockey team
8-2 in ECAC action Saturday afternoon at Alfond Arena. Harvard improves to
20-8-0 on the season, 19-4-0 in ECAC action, while Maine falls to 14-14-1,
9-13-1 in conference play. With the loss, Maine is mathematically
eliminated from the ECAC playoffs scheduled for next weekend.

Jennifer Botterill (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. John's Ravenscourt) opened the
scoring for Harvard at 8:27 with her 36th goal of the season. Lauren
McAuliffe (North Reading, Mass./North Reading) gave the Crimson a 2-0 lead
just 33 seconds later, and Tammy Shewchuk (St. Laurent, Quebec/Taft) made
it 3-0 heading into the first intermission.

Maine scored the lone goal of the second period when Rebecca Ouellet
(Amesbury, Mass./Chelmsford) scored her first collegiate goal as she threw
a long shot on net from the boards that found the back of the net.

Harvard took a 3-1 lead into the third period, but scored three goals in
the first six minutes to break open the game. Shewchuk scored her second
of the game at 1:03, and teammate Kiirsten Suurkask (Tsawwassen, British
Columbia/South Delta Secondary) made it 5-1 with her 11th of the season
just 1:33 later.

Tracy Catlin Cambridge, Mass./St. Paul's) added to the Crimson lead with
her ninth goal of the season at 5:48. Botterill was not done however, and
she put Harvard up 7-1 with her 37th goal of the season at 13:17. Maine
answered just 30 seconds later when Karen Droog (Listowel, Ontario/Peel
Storm) scored her 21st goal of the campaign to make it a 7-2 score.
LeeAnne Irwin (Freeport, N.Y.) picked up an assists on the Droog tally.
Pam Van Reessema (Greeenwich, Conn./Taft) closed out the scoring for
Harvard at 16:03 with her third goal of the season.

Harvard outshot the Black Bears 49-19. Amanda Cronin (York, Maine/New
Hampton Prep) made 41 saves in net for the Black Bears while counterpart
Jessica Ruddock (Guelph, Ontario/Taft) stopped 17 UMaine shots.

Maine will play its season finale tomorrow (March 4, 2001) at 3:00 p.m. at
Alfond Arena when it hosts Brown, while Harvard will travel to the
University of New Hampshire for a 2:00 p.m. tilt.



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  Score by Periods      1  2  3   Score
  -----------------    -- -- --   -----
  Harvard.............  3  0  5  -  8
  Maine...............  0  1  1  -  2

  Scoring:
  1. HU - Jennifer Botterill 36 (Kiirsten Suurkask, Angie Francisco) - 1st
08:27.
  2. HU - Lauren McAuliffe 4 (Pam Van Reesema, Vanessa Bazzocchi) - 1st
09:00.
  3. HU - Tammy Shewchuk 19 (Kalen Ingram, Jennifer Botterill) - 1st 14:05
(pp).
  4. MAINE - Rebecca Ouellet 1 - 2nd 08:22.
  5. HU - Tammy Shewchuk 20 (Jennifer Botterill) - 3rd 01:03.
  6. HU - Kiirsten Suurkask 11 (Angie Francisco, Tara Dunn) - 3rd 02:36.
  7. HU - Tracy Catlin 9 (Kiirsten Suurkask) - 3rd 05:48.
  8. HU - Jennifer Botterill 37 (Kalen Ingram, Tammy Shewchuk) - 3rd
13:17.
  9. MAINE - Karen Droog 21 (LeeAnne Irwin) - 3rd 13:47.
  10. HU - Pam Van Reesema 3 (Tara Dunn, Tammy Shewchuk) - 3rd 16:03 (pp).



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