Had St. Lawrence been forced to play fellow semfinal loser Brown in a consolation or had Minnesota not had to play its consolation game, the selection results may well have been different.

Delayed Entry

The start time of Saturday's Harvard-St. Lawrence semifinal was delayed a full hour to 8:30 p.m. because of the preceding Dartmouth-Brown matchup, a thriller of a game that the Big Green won 3-2 in double overtime.

Harvard was not phased at all by the delay.

"Some people get a little nervous when you have a wrinkle in your day--with overtime in the first game--but it certainly didn't affect us a bit," Stone said. "Our preperation has been outstanding in the last few weeks."

This was the fourth year in a row that Brown and Dartmouth had met in the ECAC Tournament, including last year's championship game. The Bears, playing with their season on the line, gave Dartmouth one of its toughest battles of the season.

In the first period, it was all Big Green as Kristen King and Jennifer Wiehn tallied to put Dartmouth up 2-0 to the delight of a 2000-plus crowd. But Brown came back and dominated the second period to tie the game.

Throughout the third period and overtime, Dartmouth was in complete control, but it could not get the puck past Brown goaltender Pam Dreyer. She played the game of her life, stopping over 50 Dartmouth shots on the afternoon.