B.C. Chops Down Crimson in Overtime, 4-3

Ray Bastarache's 45-foot shot into the lower left corner of the Harvard goal wrote a sad ending last night to one of the most exciting tales ever told at Warson Rink. The Boston College defenseman's goal at 5:50 of a ten-minute overtime capped a comeback that brought the Eagles from a 3-1 third-period deficit to a 4-3 victory.

The Crimson amassed its lead in the second period, after the evenly matched teams battled through a scrreless opening frame. Pete Waldinger, resurrected from the bench after a stick to Bobby Bauer's eye forced a realignment, scored the first two, and Pete Mueller added the third.

It took a perfect play at 2:09 of the second period to break the stalemate of defenses and goalies. Ben Smith passed from the left corner to the point. Tom Micheletti returned the bullet pass, then Smith centered just as fast to Waldinger, who backhanded a sizzler from ten feet into the lower right corner of the cage.

Harvard's lead, lasted until Paul Hurley unleashed the East's best shot eight minutes later. The Eagles were killing a penalty charged against their goalie when Hurley wound up his slapper outside the blue line. The screaming puck bounced off bill Fitzsimmon's pads into the goal at 10:24.

Waldinger restored the lead at 15:48 as he skated out from the right boards and pinpointed the puck into the goal's lower left corner.

The pressure applied by Harvard's first line paid off in Mueller's goal less than two minutes inter. The sophomore wing slapped home a pass from behind the net by Kent Parrot, as B.C. goalie George McPhee was caught slowly rising from an earlier shot.

The Eagles kicked the victory out of Harvard's bag early in the third period. Whitey Allen swatted the puck at Fitzsimmons twice from the crease before Huriex hit tin at 2:41.

Four minutes later Dick Fuller got credit for the only cheap goal of the evening, when his centering pass bounced in off a Crimsondefenseman. Hurley received an assist.

Play got a little rougher as regulation time drew to its close, and the usually restrained Harvard contingent among the fullhouse broke into a thundcrous "Beat B.C. Kupka on a breakaways. McPhee thwarted bids by Dwight Ware and Smith. and Harvard defenseman Charlie Scammon broke up a threat in the Crimson crease. Hurley. Allen, and Fuller then kept the puck in Harvard's zone for an agonizingly long time, before it flonted out in coming in from the right point.

Basrache's flick of the wrist nullified a fine game by Fitzsimmons, who made 32 saves to McPhee's 41, and exceptional work on defense by the tandem of Charme Scammon and Boh Carr.