{"id":302656,"date":"2010-02-10T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=37546"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:00:40","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-title-no-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302656","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s title No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvard women\u2019s hockey<\/a> coach Katie Stone<\/a> only granted her players a couple hours to celebrate their 1-0 Beanpot championship win over No. 7 Northeastern, but the No. 6-ranked Crimson earned every precious minute of that bliss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have until midnight to enjoy the Beanpot,\u201d said Stone. \u201cThat\u2019s what we talk about. Whether we\u2019ve won or we haven\u2019t won, think about it, wake up tomorrow morning, and it\u2019s on to the next thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The game\u2019s lone goal came from a shot by Harvard forward Liza Ryabkina<\/a> \u201911, the tournament\u2019s unanimous most valuable player, who scored a career-high four goals in the Crimson\u2019s 5-0 opening round win over Boston College on Feb. 2. She finished with a tournament-best five goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing. There\u2019s really no other word for it,\u201d said Ryabkina. \u201cWe wanted to win this Beanpot, and I think everyone played really well and really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claiming its 13th Beanpot overall, and second in the past three years, the team won a game eerily reminiscent of last year\u2019s final, when Boston College needed just one goal to claim the title over the Crimson. That was the first 1-0 Beanpot final ever. This was the second.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re certainly happy to bring the Beanpot back to Cambridge and Harvard. It was an excellent hockey game, back and forth,\u201d said Stone. \u201cThose are the kinds of games championships should be like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard goaltender Laura Bellamy<\/a> \u201913, who stopped all 27 shots by the Huskies, finished the tournament with 42 saves and two shutouts. She was honored with the Bertagna Award as the tournament\u2019s top goaltender.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team\u2019s played so well offensively, it\u2019s made my job easy to try to keep the puck out of the net,\u201d said Bellamy, who, in her eight starts since senior netminder Christina Kessler went down with a season-ending injury, has recorded three shutouts.<\/p>\n

Bellamy only saw 11 shots through the first two periods. But when Northeastern picked up the pace in the final one, the freshman goaltender was ready, stopping 16 shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had to keep telling myself to stay locked in,\u201d said Bellamy, because \u201cyou never know what can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like any team that\u2019s coming from behind in a championship, they\u2019re going to take some risks, they\u2019re going to get a little desperate, so we are going to need to manage that kind of pressure, and I thought we did a nice job with it,\u201d said Stone.<\/p>\n

Although the Crimson met the challenge of defeating a top-10 team in a midseason championship, more hurdles lie ahead for Harvard, which after a short rest will have two games on the road against Rensselaer (Feb. 12) and Union (Feb. 13), before closing the season at second-place Clarkson (Feb. 19) and fourth-place St. Lawrence (Feb. 20).<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of being a college hockey player. You win, you have to turn it up and keep winning; you don\u2019t win, you have to figure out a way to win again,\u201d said Stone.<\/p>\n

Despite the need for short-term memory in college hockey, Ryabkina couldn\u2019t help but plead with her coach to extend the celebration, asking, \u201cCould we have until 12:15 tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvard women\u2019s hockey coach Katie Stone only granted her players a couple hours to celebrate their 1-0 Beanpot championship win over No. 7 Northeastern, but the No. 6-ranked Crimson earned every precious minute of that bliss. \u201cThey have until midnight to enjoy the Beanpot,\u201d said Stone. \u201cThat\u2019s what we talk about. Whether we\u2019ve won or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}