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...against 15 other schools, including Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth. The team was led, once again, by freshman Christine Cho (73-77-150). Cho, who tied for first in the Dartmouth Invitational last weekend, finished the tournament in third place.Harvard came into the weekend as the defending Ivy League champions, but also well aware of its history in the competition. “We were a little daunted by the fact that last year we came into the tournament thinking we had a chance to win and ended up taking third,” junior Sarah Harvey...
...said. “We’ve gotten a lot of players in now in these types of tight situations.” Indeed, two overtime games against nonconference opponents can only help Harvard as it prepares for Ivy play beginning September 27 at defending league champion Penn. Next up: an even tougher opponent, 10th-ranked Boston College. Kickoff is scheduled for tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Chestnut Hill.“We took a lot from these games—now they’ve been there,” Leone said. “They know...
...completely psyched myself out.”Unlike Mills, however, Cross received the chance to redeem herself in the team competition, and that she did, leading the U.S. team with 31 touches in three rounds and helping it to upset last year’s world champion, Poland, in the first round. At the end of the day, Cross found herself and her two teammates with silver medals around their necks.“There are really no words to describe it,” Cross said. “It wasn’t something I really thought...
It’s nice to be the defending Ivy League champion, but the Harvard men’s tennis team learned the hard way this weekend that it cannot rest on its laurels if it is to break into the highest echelon of collegiate tennis. Given that the team has had no official practices and that it is still tuning up for important fall tournaments in the coming months, the Crimson faced one of the toughest lineups imaginable at the Napa Valley Collegiate Invitational. In one weekend, Harvard took on as many top 30 teams...
...Suspicions of fixed bouts arise occasionally, but lately the commitment and character of ranking sumo wrestlers has come under question. Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu begged off from participating in a tour of Japan, citing an injury, but he was then filmed playing soccer at home in Mongolia, earning him a two-tournament ban. Last February, then-stable master Junichi Yamamoto was arrested on suspicion of ordering three wrestlers to beat a 17-year-old during a training session - the youth later died of his injuries. Yamamoto and the wrestlers were arrested and charged, and are awaiting trial...