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...defending Ivy League Champion Harvard softball team fell short of repeating last year’s success. Going for its second straight and fifth overall league title, the Crimson (25-22, 14-6 Ivy) finished its season Saturday afternoon against Princeton at Class of 1895 Field, falling 4-2 and 5-1. The Tigers (25-22, 18-2 Ivy) entered the series as South Division Champions and held the best record in the Ivy League. Princeton will continue on at the NCAA tournament. For three members of the Harvard softball team, Saturday’s games were their last. Although...
...second clash in the space of a week between Ivy League North champion Crimson (24-20, 14-6 Ivy) and America-East leader Boston University (29-17), the margin of victory was once again just one run. Unlike their 1-0 last week, yesterday’s matchup featured more offense as the teams played out a 5-4 game in favor of the home side...
...Crimson, who is the defending Ivy champion, will travel to Princeton to take on the Tigers in the best-of-three series tomorrow and Sunday if necessary. The series winner will be crowned the Ivy Champion and will earn the right to represent the Ivies in the NCAA tournament in two weeks. “It’s going to be a tough, competitive game,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said of the series. “The teams are well-matched, they both had successes in their division, and it’s going...
...country. We didn’t know what we were going to see, and to upset the No. 3 team in the first varsity is a rare and awesome thing.”“We were really excited for this weekend, because Yale is the defending champion in the varsity, and both are incredibly strong programs,” Moore said. “This was the first year we raced Virginia in what is usually [a race between] just us and Yale. Also, we were coming off some pretty good momentum from last weekend, so we were...
...last weekend’s second national selection regatta, Lofgren and her partner, two-time world champion Lindsay Shoop, placed third in the finals of the women’s pairs, a sweep event...