Clarkson women fall to Harvard in Game 1

Despite an outstanding effort by Clarkson goaltender Kira Hurley, the one goal that snuck by was all that Harvard needed to defeat the Golden Knights in the first game of the best-of-three series in Cambridge, MA this weekend. Jennifer Sifers scored the lone goal when Carrie Schroyer took an odd bounce off of the boards and sent it over to Lindsay Weaver. The feed was sent over to Sifers who wristed one on net and which squeaked by Kira Hurley after it looked like she had made the save. Hurley kept Clarkson in the game by stopping 20 of 21 shots in the 1st period. Clarkson only had six goals in the third, but turned it up in the 2nd and 3rd, creating several breakaways and two on one opportunities, but unable to convert any of them to tie the game up. Clarkson pulled Kira Hurley at the end of the 3rd, and threw a shot on net at the buzzer, but it was blocked down by the Crimson defense giving them the victory. Clarkson ended up outshooting Harvard in the final two periods, bringing the shot total to 32-24.