Word: championed
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ITHACA, N.Y.—After a close battle with the Harvard men’s basketball team just two weeks ago at Lavietes Pavilion in which Cornell prevailed, 72-71, in the final seconds, the Big Red showed why it deserves to be the Ivy League champion by blowing out Harvard on its home court in front of a sellout crowd at Newman Arena, 86-53. More than 30 minutes prior to game-time, the Big Red student section was nearly full, heckling and taunting Crimson players as they went through their warm-up routine. “This...
...could only send five girls to ECAC’s. Our top priority is the Ivy Championships.”The Harvard women (6-1, 6-1 Ivy League) indeed brought a force to DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J., hoping to avenge a dual-meet loss to the defending champion Tigers (7-0, 6-0).Despite an excellent showing, the Crimson came up a bit short. Princeton proved dominant, amassing 1651.5 points on the way to claiming the team championship. Harvard’s performance cannot be discounted, though, as the Crimson hung with the Tigers...
...early and was unable to mount a comeback, falling 3-0 to Lange for the second time this season. Mashruwala reached the quarterfinals before falling to Lange, 3-0. Her tournament highlight came in the second round where she rallied from two games down to knock off 2006 national champion and ex-Crimson star Lily Lorentzen of Stanford, 2-9, 4-9, 9-0, 10-9, 9-0. But perhaps the biggest surprise of the tournament came in the play of Williams who in the opening round knocked off Princeton’s Amanda Siebert, the top flight...
...feisty speeches to crowds that - while they were only a fraction of the size that Barack Obama was drawing - seemed as intense and determined as any she has drawn to date in this campaign. In depressed Youngstown, she appeared with hometown favorite Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, the middleweight boxing champion, and declared: "I'm a fighter, a doer and a champion...
...teams and the Cornell University Band warm up as the first group of hardy fans starts to form what will be a sellout crowd. Even Bartels Hall is filling up to capacity as the Ivy League champion Big Red men's basketball team prepares to take on the Crimson. In other action, Day 1 of the Heptagonals is complete here in Ithaca. It's a sports fan's dream...