The following article featuring Harvard forward Mike Taylor appeared in the March 21 issue of the Boston Globe.

By John Powers
Globe Staff

The reality hit him like a two-hander upside the head just before Mike Taylor took the ice last Sunday night against Quinnipiac for the third game of the ECAC quarterfinals at Bright Center. "It was probably the most scared I've been before a game," Harvard's cocaptain confessed. "It's one thing to have your season on the line. It's another thing to have your college career on the line."

So Taylor went out and made sure he and his teammates would live to play another day, scoring two goals and setting up the third in the 3-1 victory that sent the third-seeded Crimson (16-12-4) to Albany, N.Y., for the seventh time in eight years for a semifinal date tonight against fifth-seeded archrival Cornell (18-13-3) at the Times Union Center.

"Mike's Mr. Clutch," testified David MacDonald, Taylor's fellow cocaptain and campus wingman. "The bigger the stakes, the better he plays."

Complete article can be accessed via the Globe Web site by clicking here.