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...waning minutes of last year’s Ivy League basketball playoff against Dartmouth, a defeated Harvard bench and a lopsided box score told the story that two regular-season thrillers between the Crimson and the Big Green could never tell.Harvard, come-from-behind darlings in two previous games against Dartmouth, just did not have the interior muscle to contend with bruising Big Green forward Elise Morrison. Throughout last season, the Crimson lacked a true offensive and defensive post presence. The result? Harvard outhustled and often outshot slower opponents, but the Crimson fell short—literally—against...
...freshman recruit from Torrance, Cal.—to be its lone netminder. Luckily for Harvard, Martin stepped up to the challenge and saved 76 shots to earn ties against Brown and Yale.And she played all 130 minutes with no other goaltender dressed to play on the bench, knowing she would be the last line of defense for the Crimson. “She kept her composure in a very pressure-cooker game,” remarked Harvard coach Katey Stone after Martin stopped 33 shots in a scoreless tie with the Bears on Saturday. “Brittany...
...reptition of the morning’s routine. Their nightlife consisted of watching game tapes as a team for hours a time. Often, watching a 20-minute period of a game would take one-and-a-half hours to get through.Such a rigorous schedule has forced the players to bench procrastination and develop good time management skills.Chu and Cahow both took a year off from school to train for the Olympics, but when they were on campus, Cahow says that by managing her time effectively, she could juggle hockey practice and four or five classes each semester.The struggles of time...
...last second, were headstrong,” Donato said. “We just needed to stay on top of our gameplan.”The second period began slowly in the way of big highlights, until sophomore David MacDonald took a huge check into the BU bench six minutes into the second frame. Although MacDonald appeared unfazed, the Terriers’ aggressive play throughout the period did seem to crack the Harvard psyche.A potential scoring opportunity for the Crimson never materialized when junior defenseman Dylan Reese was unable to handle a set-up pass in the middle...
...game film study. He was a game-time decision to start, but four minutes in, his playing time would be limited for a different reason.Stehle committed a loose-ball foul at the 18:18 mark and then hacked Columbia forward John Baumann two minutes later, relegating him to the bench for the next five minutes with a zero in the column he did need and a two in the one he didn’t. If this night was to be a celebration of Stehle’s career, it would be almost fitting that cheap fouls played...