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Mark My Words

A Fanatical All-Hockey Team

Defense: I know you're thinking char Joslin and Mark Benning. A freshman and a senior. The perfect one-two punch.

Joslin led the women's hockey team in scoring with 26 goals and 25 assists. Her 51 points set a Harvard scoring record. Joslin also earned All-Ivy Honorable mention honors for her efforts on the field hockey field, making her the Team's multi-Hockey selection.

Benning finished his last season with three goals and 29 assists. He earned All-ECAC and All-America honors. What's more, he could be the team spokesman--if you'd excuse his discourse into Japanese history (Benning takes his East Asian studies seriously)--as he was a runner-up for a Rhodes Scholorship last year.

But the All-Hockey Team already has its share of high scorers and high IQ's what we need are some hard hitters who make opponents smart. Players who would show that the All-Hockey Team is made up of both prima donnas and matadors.

Hockey player Christine Burns may have scored only one goal this season (a game-winner against Princeton), but she didn't record a team-high 18 penalty minutes for nothing. she's an intimidator and an inspirer.

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Field hockey player Leelee Groome also scored only a single goal. But Groome has the longest ground ball in the league. And when she lifts one in the air, heads duck.

Goalie: Going on straight goals-against averages, the choice is field hockey's Denise Katsias (1.44 g.a.a.) over Jennifer White (1.79) and Dickie McEvoy (2.22). On spirit, too, Katsias gets the nod over the other two. Besides Katsias has to play in all kinds of weather conditions--rain, snow or shine--and White and McEvoy know that they'll always have a solid sheet of ice under them."

That's all my correspondent wrote. But next week he promises to furnish an All-Net Team.

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