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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbia has traditionally been the larger powerhouse," Birney says. "Every year, they beat us. Princeton has usually been up there, too. To beat both of them was an extremely memorable experience...
Just how much better the Crimson had gotten was evident at Regionals March 5-6. The Crimson dismantled NYU in the first round, 9-3; beat Brandeis in the second round, 9-3; and then beat Yale again in the semi-finals, 9-4, setting up a rematch with St. Johns, which the team beat convincingly, the individual competition, as Birney took first and freshman Viktoria Danics took second...
Things continued on the right track after winter break, as the team got on a successful streak at home. The squad swept Bridgewater State and Boston College on January 12, and then, after a close loss to East Stroudsberg, beat Princeton and Boston College...
...west to the state that made the game famous, California, and got a bitter taste of what first-rate collegiate water polo can be like, finishing seventh of 12 teams in the Pomona Invitational March 26-27. The team demolished Occidental in the first round, 18-1, and beat Cal-Poly in the second, 8-7, but then fell hard to heavies UC-San Diego, 15-4, and Pomona, 11-5. Dropped to the loser's bracket, the team finished the tournament with two convincing wins over San Luis Obispo and Occidental...
...Harvard beat Princeton in the first round of the tourney, 7-4, and then demolished UMass-Amherst, 12-5. But, catapulted into the round of four, the Crimson was stung by eventual champion Slippery Rock, 23-3, set back by Maryland in a nail-biter 5-4, and then fell to Bucknell in the finale...