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...Defenseman Brian McCafferty took home the George Percy award for the team’s top rookie, and senior goaltender John Daigneau was presented the banquet’s last piece of hardware, the John Tudor Memorial Cup for the most valuable player. After three frustrating years on the bench, Daigneau earned the starting job this season and racked up 19 wins, the third-best single-season win total in Harvard hockey history. Next year, Reese will lead a team that loses five current seniors the impending June commencement: forwards Dan Murphy and Charlie Johnson, defenseman Hafner and Tom Walsh...
...most people, the life of a starting pitcher must seem pretty simple: pitch once every five days, ice your arm, do some light cardio, and plop down on the bench with some Big League Chew and a bag of sunflower seeds for the rest of the week...
Even now, the name of one of my all-time favorite pitchers, Andy Pettitte, evokes memories of the playoff legend laughing and blowing bubbles on the bench in his Yankee pinstripes rather than actually pitching in a game...
...right fielder Lance Salsgiver in his three times up.Backup catcher Matt Kramer unintentionally encapsulated Harvard’s aggressiveness and the Lions’ haplessness when his hard slide in the second inning broke up a potential double play and ignited the ire of the Columbia bench.“It’s just part of the game,” Kramer said. “It’s hard baseball so it’s kind of expected.”Walsh called off the proverbial dogs in the later innings, replacing the majority of the regular...
...said Saturday afternoon’s windy cold didn’t bother him. “It wasn’t too bad,” Cole said. “I got pretty warm before the game. I mean, when you’re sitting on the bench it’s freezing and once you get out there and you’re throwing it doesn’t even bother you anymore. By the second inning I was fine.” More impressive than Cole’s velocity and breaking pitch was his continued...