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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...
...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...
...Once-dominant Princeton finished last in the Ivy League for the first time in its history this season, and league champion Penn will be graduating its three top players. A new team, such as Cornell or Columbia, may be favored next season. Harvard could well be in contention for the crown next year and, with a core composed of sophomores Harris and Housman, could be a major challenger in two seasons...