LACROSSE

The Ivy League lacrosse race is a showers-and-flowers re-run of last fall's football competition - at least we hope it goes all the way to the same happy ending. Dartmouth was still very much in the championship picture until it was beaten by Harvard 12-6 on May 9, then a week later it was right back in the spotlight again as it upset defending champion Princeton 9-7 at Hanover and "good old Yale" upset Harvard. Now the Indians find they can share a piece of the title if they beat Cornell in the finale. Does the script sound familiar?

Up to this point the Indians have been under pressure in each game and this experience may pay off when they meet the Big Red at Ithaca in the show-down. The Green has been led by the steady leadership of Mike Herriott, one of the most respected players in the East.

Going into the Harvard game, the Green held victories over Penn 11-1 and Yale 7-2, and it had lost to Brown 9-4. The Crimson played an outstanding game, leading at halftime 7-1. The Indians, led by Herriott who scored twice, rallied, but the blitz on the Harvard cage of 30 shots and five goals fell short.

In the Princeton game, however, Dartmouth came from behind in the second half to win. Trailing in the third quarter, Herriott scored twice and just as the final quarter opened Murph Cohon knotted the score at 6-6. Bruce McKissock gave the Indians the lead only to see the game tied again by the Tigers. Then Lee Mercer scored what proved to be the winning goal at 6:59 on a pass from Herriott and with fifteen seconds left in the game scored again with the clincher. It was an all-around team effort, however, as the defense also played a brilliant game behind the goal-tending of Brian "Wah Wah" Walsh.

In other games played since our last report Holy Cross was beaten 10-8 and Williams edged 12-11 in overtime. Overall the Indians are now 6-3 on the season.

Herriott has been the Indian most difficult to stop as he has scored sixteen goals and sixteen assists (through the Harvard game). Mercer is second high with eleven goals and twelve assists and midfielder McKissock has fourteen goals and one assist. In the goal, through seven games, Walsh had 125 saves and had allowed only 53 goals.