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Sports in brief
Women’s golf take second consecutive Ivy crown; Women’s tennis claim Ivy title; Crimson men’s lacrosse down Yale; Two Crimson football players sign with NFL teams
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Water polo finish season with 9-8 win
Although the 2009 season proved quite an upward battle for a young Crimson women’s water polo team — composed of nine underclassmen and just five upperclassmen — there’s no better way to finish a season than with a win.
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Women’s softball inch closer to North Division title
This past weekend, the Harvard women’s softball team, led by Jennifer Francis ’10 and Bailey Vertovez ’09, traveled to Providence, R.I., to take three of four games from the Brown Bears.
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Women’s heavyweights retain O’Leary Cup
On Saturday (April 18), Radcliffe’s heavyweight crew defeated Dartmouth and Syracuse on Onondaga Lake to hold on to the Elizabeth O’Leary Cup, with wins in the second varsity eight, varsity four B, and varsity eight races. This year’s victory marks the seventh win for the Black and White in the 10-year history of the event.
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Men’s volleyball fall to Rutgers-Newark, split Hay title
Despite downing the Scarlet Raiders at Malkin Athletic Center in five games a month before, the Crimson were unable to stop the powerful Rutgers-Newark attack (which hit a combined .337) in a three-game sweep of Harvard on Friday (April 17), snapping the Crimson’s five-game winning streak.
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Crimson undaunted by Crusaders, top Holy Cross, 11-4
Disappointment struck men’s lacrosse after they dropped their midweek tilt against No. 14 Brown on April 15, which may dampen the team’s chance to make their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1996. So, when the No. 17 Crimson came out flat on Saturday (April 18) against a struggling 3-10 Holy Cross team, the Harvard men…
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Radcliffe Fellow tells tale of first woman to play professional baseball
In 1991 the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., paid homage to players from the Negro Leagues, an artifact of segregated America that had faded away three decades earlier.
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Three-run fourth not enough against B.C.
The grass wasn’t greener on the other side of the river — although for a while it sure looked like it was. Vying for their first Baseball Beanpot win in three years, the Harvard men’s baseball team took the field at Fenway Park on Monday (April 13) against the Boston College (B.C.) Eagles in the…
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Crimson women improve to 19-9
In the early part of the season, the Harvard Crimson softball team has racked up their fair share of frequent-flier miles. The first 25 games of the season have seen the Crimson play up and down the East Coast — from Rhode Island to Florida — but it was about time for a game in…
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Crimson men’s golf take Yale Spring Opener
For the second consecutive season, the Harvard Crimson men’s golf team found success in New Haven, Conn., capturing the Yale Spring Opener behind the play of senior John Christensen and juniors Danny Mayer and Greg Shuman, who finished first, second, and third, respectively, in the tournament.
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Crimson women’s golf remain unbeaten; win sixth tournament
The Harvard women’s golf team, which before this past weekend (April 4-5) had won each of the five tournaments they competed in this season, made it six-for-six on Sunday (April 5), completing the 2009 Brown Invitational 34 strokes ahead of second-place finisher Boston College.
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Crimson win 3 in walk-off fashion
In dramatic fashion, the Harvard men’s baseball team took three-of-four from Cornell and Princeton this past weekend (April 4-5), with the help of three key walk-off hits, two from Tom Stack-Babich ’09 and one from Taylor Meehan ’09.
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Crimson hold off the Bulldog’s fight
There’s no stopping them, and there’s no containing them. It’s too bad the team from Connecticut wasn’t forewarned.
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Lightweight crew win two weekend races
On Sunday (March 29), the Radcliffe lightweight crew opened things off right, taking home two first-place finishes at Holy Cross. The varsity eight finished with a time of 6:35 — four seconds ahead of the Holy Cross Crusaders and eight seconds ahead of the Smith Pioneers. The Black and White also captured the novice eight,…
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Crimson volleyball survive NYU, Sacred Heart
Despite falling behind 0-2 at New York University (NYU) on Saturday (March 28) and 1-2 at Sacred Heart on Sunday (March 29), the Harvard men’s volleyball team still fought through, taking both matches in five games.
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Men’s lacrosse pound Presbyterian
After their heartbreaking 8-9 loss at Georgetown last Wednesday (March 25), the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team rebounded with a dominating performance on Friday (March 27), devastating the Presbyterian Blue Hose by a score of 17-2.
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Crimson turn on offense vs. Hartford
There’s something special about the Harvard men’s lacrosse team. The signs are everywhere. There’s the Crimson’s 9-6 upset at Duke — against the country’s No. 5 team, in the season opener — followed by a 12-4 pounding of Stony Brook the next weekend. Then there is the crucial play of freshman attackman Jeff Cohen, who…
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Women’s tennis wins 2 of 3
The Harvard women’s tennis team pulled a pair of wins this past weekend, including a 4-3 upset over No. 68 Boston College on March 13, and then, bouncing back from a 1-6 loss to No. 52 Florida International (March 15), a 6-1 win over Florida Gulf Coast (March 16). The Crimson now stand at 4-6,…
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Crimson continue to cruise, have won 6 of their last 8
The Harvard men’s volleyball team are now winners of six out of their last eight, sweeping East Stroudsburg on March 14, 3-0, followed by a 3-0 sweep of MIT on March 17. The Crimson downed East Stroudsburg in straight sets (bouncing back from a loss at Princeton the night before) for their first road win…
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Women’s basketball to play in WNIT
An Ivy League title and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament were just out of reach for the Crimson this season, but it’s not time for the Harvard women’s basketball team to hang up their jerseys just yet.
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Crimson volleyball takes four out of five in successful homestand
Despite starting the season with a 2-4 record, a recent five-game homestand in which the Harvard men’s volleyball team went 4-1 may have been exactly what the doctor ordered for the Crimson.
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Women’s basketball takes bite out of Bulldogs
In the final home appearance of their Harvard basketball careers, the four seniors honored before Saturday evening’s (March 7) game put on quite a show for the home crowd at Lavietes Pavilion.
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Men’s basketball splits weekend
Twenty-four hours after falling to last-place Brown, 59-61, the Crimson gained a bit of redemption, dominating the second-place Yale Bulldogs on the road by a score of 69-59.
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Crimson men fall twice to Brown
The hot sticks of the Harvard men’s hockey team froze over as the Crimson’s season ended this past weekend falling to the No. 12-seeded Brown Bears twice in the opening round of the ECAC tournament. Brown goaltender Mike Clemente amassed 80 saves in the two shutout wins, helping the Bears take down the No. 5-seeded…
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Women’s hockey upset by RPI
Despite tallying 48 shots on goal against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the No. 7 Harvard women’s hockey team was unable to skate past RPI in the ECAC tournament semifinal at Bright Hockey Center on Saturday (March 7), losing 2-3 in overtime.
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Crimson shut out Cornell twice; Will play in ECAC semifinal
In their two ECAC quarterfinal matchups against Cornell at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimson women’s hockey team shut down the Cornell Big Red 3-0 on Friday (Feb. 27) and 4-0 on Saturday (Feb. 28) to advance to the semifinal round where Harvard will play Rensselaer at home Saturday (March 7) at 1 p.m.
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Women’s hoops down Columbia, Cornell to keep Ivy title in reach
The Crimson continue to inch closer to their third consecutive Ivy championship after the women’s basketball team traveled to New York this past weekend and defeated Columbia on Friday (Feb. 27), 71-58, and Cornell on Saturday (Feb. 28), 63-56.
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Women’s swimming finishes first in IVY and ECAC Championships
The No. 25 Harvard women’s swimming and diving team swam and dove like champions this past weekend despite having to split up the team to compete in two different competitions. The swimmers placed first out of eight teams at the 2009 Ivy League Championships meet (Feb. 26-28) at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East…
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Start spreading the news
As time expired on Cornell, just as it did on Columbia the night before, the age-old sports cliché proved ever so true: On any given day, any team can win.
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Crimson power back to tame Tigers
In basketball, embarrassment can be excruciating, but it can also serve as a powerful motivator. It took an embarrassing first half against Princeton (Feb. 20), in which the Crimson trailed 6-28 at one point, for Harvard to muster a bit of motivation.