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...have hurt the Crimson. “At times, we show our inexperience,” Leone said. “And tonight was just one of those nights.” Despite the loss, Harvard has an outside shot at making the NCAA Tournament via an at-large berth if it can beat Penn in its final match of the season. “We’d like to finish with more heart at home against Penn,” Leone said. That contest kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on Ohiri Field...
...matches were the team’s last before its long winter layoff, which continues until late January. As such, they were an opportunity for the players to build positive momentum and to uncover any weaknesses that can be addressed during the winter. For Nguyen, who earned a berth in the national indoor tournament with his second-place finish as the ITA Regionals in Princeton, N.J., two weeks before, the weekend’s task was to prove he could hold his own against players from the highest echelons of college tennis. Though he lost both of his matches...
...spot as the No. 6 seed for Eastern Championships.Entering Northerns as the No. 3 seed, Harvard played its first-round game against Fordham, a team it defeated earlier in the year, 10-5.The Crimson set the tone for the match early, cruising to a commanding first-half lead.Although a berth at Easterns was assured by the win, there was still work to be done at the Zesiger Pool in MIT.Harvard’s semifinal match against rival Brown didn’t go as swimmingly as its earlier game, as the Crimson’s Northern Championships...
Despite the setbacks, the performance earned the team a berth at the Atlantic Coast Championships at Eckerd College in two weekends...
...fellow survivors gave Head a wide berth, too. "All of us are so deferential to each other," says Peter Miller, a financial planner who was on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and who has worked closely with Head over the years through survivor events. "We just assume we're always on the brink of getting emotional." He remembers noticing one inconsistency in Head's story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiancé. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero...