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Winning the big onesBy Albert Chen The ball was in the goal, then it came out. "We started cheering," Amanda Cox,MC '98, said. "But the refs never stopped play." Late in the game, a shot by Alyssa Chen, TD '99, bounced off the Dartmouth goal's inside rim. It appeared that the goal should have counted, but it didn't, and it would have tied the game at 11. The Big Green, who are ranked in the top 10 in the nation, won the Sat., Mar. 28, game 12-10. It was the Bulldogs (3-1, 0-1 Ivy) first loss of the season. It was already an impressive comeback. The Bulldogs overcame a dismal first half, during which the Big Green jumped out in the first 10 minutes to a 7-2 lead. "We were embarrassed," Cox said. "Nothing connected, we couldn't even read the bounces on the turf...it was ridiculous." "It was a tough loss. It was in our hands, but it just slipped away," head coach Amanda O'Leary said. What makes this loss hurt so much is how close the Bulldogs were to taking the upset. "If we want this program to go to the next level," O'Leary said, "We have to beat teams like Dartmouth." "I don't know why we came out scared and intimidated, but we did," Cox said. "We can't dwell on this. We have to move on, it's a short season." On Sat., Apr. 11, the Bulldogs face another nationally ranked league foe in Princeton, a team that has dominated Yale in recent years. --Albert Chen
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