The buzzer remains in critical condition after repeated beatings by the Harvard women's basketball team.

Freshman point guard Jen Monti was the latest assailant, scoring two knock-outs in a pair of weekend victories over Brown and Yale. BROWN  67 HARVARD  69 YALE  53 HARVARD  54

On Friday night, Monti drove the length of the floor and hit a fadeaway three-pointer as the buzzer sounded to give the Crimson (10-14, 7-6 Ivy) a 69-67 win over their visiting Bears (12-14, 7-7). One night later Monti took an encore, finishing off a strong drive with a delicate finger roll as time expired to lift

Harvard over Yale (10-16, 5-9) by a 54-53count.

The Crimson has toyed with the clock allseason, as this weekend brings Harvard's record to3-1 in games in which it took meaningfullast-second shots. Freshman Katie Gates beatDartmouth on a 35-footer on Jan. 9, but her50-foot heave at the end of last Saturday'sdouble-overtime loss to Princeton bounded off theside of the rim.

The wins avenge Harvard's two road losses toYale and Brown on Jan. 30 and 31.

Harvard 54, Yale 53

Someone should have given Monti a blood testfollowing this weekend's performance because therookie played as if she had ice in her veins.

One night after drilling a game-winning,off-balance three-pointer against Brown at thebuzzer, Monti offered up a reprise versus Yale.With just 6.4 seconds remaining in the game,Harvard co-captain Suzie Miller inbounded the ballto Monti in the right corner of the Crimson'soffensive end of the floor, and the heart-stoppingsequence was set into motion.

Monti held the ball in the corner as the clockwound down, and she looked to pass to freshmanforward Lindsay Ryba in the paint. But theBulldogs stuck a double team on Monti in anattempt to trap her in the corner and force aturnover--that decision would come back to bitethe Bulldogs.

Monti dribbled left around the double team anddrove into the lane where she faked a pass withpoetic subtlety. The effect was pronounced asYale's frontcourt defenders parted like the RedSea before Moses, and Monti finger-rolled the balljust over the front rim with her left hand as timeexpired.

"I have some people who want that last shot,who like pressure, and I love that," said HarvardCoach Kathy Delaney-Smith. "I think there's ahigher power helping us, I really do. I alsobelieve there are players who really willit--that's Jen."

Monti's heroics capped off a second half thatsaw Harvard erase a 10-point Yale lead. In anotherwise close contest with 11 lead changes andfour ties, the Crimson found itself trailing 43-33with 14:35 left to play before embarking on a 13-0run in a six-minute span led by three consecutivebuckets courtesy of Miller.

The run began when Monti drove through the Yaledefense and hit a lay-up to pull Harvard withineight. Then Miller went to work. Playing in herfinal home weekend along with her three seniorclassmates, Miller started things off with agorgeous reverse lay-up off a beautiful lob passfrom fellow co-captain Sarah Russell.

After a missed jumper by Yale sophomore forwardLily Glick, Monti pushed the ball up in transitionand kicked it to Miller in the right corner forone of her five treys on the night to make it athree-point game. Following a Yale timeout and ablocked shot by Ryba, sophomore point guard LisaKowal found Miller on the left wing for a 16-footjumper that pulled Harvard within one.

Less than one minute later, Kowal herself gavethe Crimson the lead when she used a hesitationdribble to freeze her defender, Yale junior guardKelly Denit, then blew by Denit and kissed a shothigh off the glass for a 44-43 Harvard advantage.Senior center Rose Janowski capped off Harvard'srun with an impressive, 180-degree, turnaroundhook over her Yale counterpart Katy Grubbs at the8:41 mark.