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...Harvard fencing team entered competition with national champion status, poised to qualify as many fencers as possible for a run at another NCAA title.Unfortunately, that shot now comes with a handicap.Yesterday’s NCAA Regional Championships at Tufts included many ups and downs. The Crimson qualified nine fencers for Nationals, two each in the men’s saber and foil and women’s epee, and one each in women’s foil and saber and men’s epee.To the average sports fan, it would seem that doing so would put the team...
...five longest women’s games on record, including the BC game last month and 2005’s Frozen Eight triple-overtime triumph over Mercyhurst. After a run of three consecutive national title game appearances from 2003-2005, Saturday’s loss to the defending champion Badgers marks the second straight year the Crimson has been evicted in the tournament’s opening round...
...take on No. 4 UNH in the two local games of the playoff round.Arguably the combination that best preserves the integrity of the bracket would have pitted Boston College, ranked seventh in the polls, against No. 1 Wisconsin. But as such, Harvard would face the ECAC Champion Big Green for the third time this year. “I think in a way it undermines the efforts of the players and what the team has done,” said co-captain Julie Chu of the intra-conference considerations.Despite the draw, the Crimson sees it as a wide-open tournament...
...best-of-three quarterfinal series, which begins tonight at 7 p.m. at the Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y. “Every game is the most important game of the year from here on out, no doubt,” captain Dylan Reese said. As the defending champion of the ECAC tournament, the Crimson looks for a win to advance to the ECAC Final Four in Albany, N.Y. to preserve its title and continue on to the NCAA tournament. “Everything I’d say is now,” Reese said. “You have...
...nods, as sophomore guard Emily Tay was named to the first team and junior guard Lindsay Hallion to the second team. Sophomore guard Niki Finelli received an Honorable Mention award. Tay, Hallion and Finelli ended the season as the team’s three leading scorers. The league champion Crimson will play its first-round NCAA Tournament game March...