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Date: | Mon, 13 Dec 1993 15:28:16 +119304128 |
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Richard writes on Harvard's 9-1 victory over Bowdoin in women's hockey
action Friday night:
> Friday evening at Bright Harvard played a slow grinding game to
> eventually beat the Bowdoin Polar Bears. Bowdoin's star player Nan
> Gorton was injured in the second period, and without her the match
> turned uneventful.
(stuff about scoring deleted)
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> I was again highly disappointed by a cross-check to a players head.
> This time, Nan Gorton was injured and did not return to the game.
> Normally women's hockey is very clean. Both the NU/PC match, and
> this match had ugly scenes in it. Both times the refs. saw it,
> but called nothing. I feel when there is intent to injure, the mini-
> mun penalty should be a 5 minute major. In this case a game mis-
> conduct seemed closer to being right. Another Harvard defender had
> run Gorton into the goal post in the first period. Theoretically I
> support both the teams who committed the fouls, but I feel they should
> be punished. I hope Nan Gorton is ok!?
First Nan will be okay. She suffered a concussion on the final hit and was
knocked unconscious, but she is apparently feeling better today.
I was not at this game, but I asked Bowdoin Coach Mike Woodruff about the
hit that knocked Nan out of the game. He didn't think it was malicious,
instead he felt that the cross-check was the result of a player losing
control of herself on the ice, and the stick just came up accidentially.
He was disappointed that she was injured, since he felt that it would have
been a much more interesting game had Nan been able to continue.
Craig Cheslog
Bowdoin College
Sports Information Director
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