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Heading into the 2004-2005 season, Ivy rival Princeton, longtime nemesis Trinity, and defending league and national champion Yale were all ranked above the Crimson women’s squash team. Harvard stood at No. 4, a mixed bag of seasoned veterans, fresh faces, and a lot of questions. How would the quartet of talented newcomers adjust to college squash? Who would replace the No. 1 punch of former captain Louisa Hall ’04, one of the top female squash players in the world? Could the Crimson hold its own against the Tigers, Bantams, and Bulldogs and avenge...
Harvard then went on to win two more critical down-to-the-wire matches, holding off defending champion Penn at the Palestra and upending Brown in Providence to maintain its hold on first place in the standings...
...Crimson headed into the ECAC Championships—the tune-up for Northerns and Easterns—looking to improve upon a last-place finish in 2004. Third-seeded Harvard survived a scare from a lowly Wagner squad in the first round before falling to second-seeded and eventual champion Princeton 7-3 in the semifinal round...
...least baseball-wise—the venture paid off. Morgalis turned in the best season of his collegiate career in 2005, going 5-0 with a 3.53 ERA prior to NCAA’s while serving as the veteran anchor of Harvard’s Ivy champion pitching staff. By locating an accurate fastball and twirling a darting slider, he formed one-third of an imposing tripod rotation rounded out by freshman Shawn Haviland and junior Frank Herrmann...
Morgalis was instead rewarded by being hand-picked by Walsh to step into the abyss that was Goodwin Field—home of defending national champion Cal State Fullerton...