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...game tied 1-1 in double overtime, and nine seconds left, the Crimson needed a miracle. It got a penalty shot. After Harvard freshman striker Melanie Baskind was fouled inside the box, junior Lizzy Nichols stepped into the box and lined up for the shot. Charging towards the ball, she slammed the ball into the upper left corner of the net, sealing the win over Columbia (11-4-2, 4-2-1 Ivy), the defending conference champions. With its 2-1 victory, Harvard (10-3-4, 5-1-1) is the Ivy League champion for the first time since...
...would go all downhill from there.In the third game, the Crimson and Tigers would switch roles. Despite dominating the previous game just moments before, Harvard lost its offensive presence, hitting only .167. Princeton, on the other hand, caught fire and hit an incredible .437. “Their ball control shifted,” Weiss said. “We didn’t switch any matchups, but they got the ball to the setter, so the setter was up in the box and had two options: she could set it up to the four or to the nine...
...that a win by his Beitar football team last week would boost his chances in the Nov. 11 vote. Indeed, Beitar started strong against rivals Ha'poel from Tel Aviv. Twice, his players sprinted up field, shaking off defenders to take cannonball shots at the goal, but twice the ball struck the crossbar. Beitar was scoreless. Then, in the last six minutes of the game, Ha'poel drilled in two goals. The Jerusalem fans left in a foul mood, disgusted with the team and its owner. Around town, posters of Gaydamak, whose thin face has a Transylvanian pallor, sprouted Dracula...
...League. Harvard regained control of its destiny when Yale scored a late touchdown to seal a victory at Brown, giving the Bears their first loss of the Ivy campaign. “Coach Siedlecki is a friend of mine at Yale, and they’ve got the ball with four minutes to go. and I said ‘no, he’s going to run it four times in a row. I know he is. Doggonnit,’” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Throw the football. And they...
...silver lining. The outcome wasn’t there, but we developed as a team. There were some bumps in the road, but some good high points too.” Columbia struck first five minutes into the first half. As Lions forward Jane Gartland carried the ball into the circle, senior goaltender Kylie Stone was forced to leave the cage to challenge the threat. Gartland sent a quick pass to teammate Maggie O’Connor, who lightly knocked the ball past Stone and into the left side of the net. Harvard evened things up midway through the first...