Brown Women Remain Unbeaten
Brown remained undefeated and tops in the Ivy League with a 28-24 win over Harvard. Jessica Sawadago '15 opened the scoring 26 minutes in taking the ball off the back of a 5 meter scrum and diving over for the score. Erica Florenz converted and Brown led 7-0. Minutes before the half ended Harvard scored an unconverted try to bring the score to 7-5.
In the fifty-third minute fullback Saskia Morgan '16 found room down the sideline and raced in to score under the posts, Erica converted and Brown led 14-5. Three minutes later Michelle Van derPloeg '14 pressured the Harvard 10 into a mistake and turned over the ball, 'Ploeg spun the ball out to wing Patti Ekpo '15 who raced 40 meters for the score, Erica converted and Brown was in control 21-5. Harvard scored 8 minutes later to make it 21-10. In 50th minute Jessica Sawadago picked off the back of a scrum and raced wide, scrumhalf Vanessa Munoz '13 off loaded the ball to a streaking Patti Ekpo, Patti raced to the Harvard 5 before passing to Kiki Morgan in support - Kiki scored and Brown was up 28-10.
The remaining 10 minutes Brown allowed Harvard 2 trys. Brown stayed disciplined and closed out the match with a 28-24 win. Brown remains unbeaten in the Ivy League for the 7th straight year.
Scoring Summary
Brown try Jessica Sawadago '15 - 0-5
Brown conversion Erica Florenz - 0-7
Harvard try Mo 5-7
Halftime Harvard 5-Brown 7
Brown try Saskia Morgan '16 - 5-12
Brown conversion Erica Florenz - 5-14
Brown try Patti Ekpo '15 - 5-19
Brown conversion Erica Florenz - 5-21
Harvard try 10-21
Brown try Kiki Morgan - 10-26
Brown conversion Erica Florenz - 10-28
Harvard try Chloe 15-28
Harvard conversion Xanni 17-28
Harvard try Nebs 22-28
Harvard conversion Xanni 24-28
Final Harvard 24-Brown 28
Next Sunday Brown hosts Army in a non-league match. Kick-off is at Marvel Field at 10am.