Word: championship
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Harvard's Cinderella fencing team tried championship slippers on for size Saturday, after humiliating defending Ivy titlist Penn, 18-9, at the IAB to clinch at least a tie for its first Ivy title ever...
Crimson coach Edo Marion, for whom this season is the first to bring a championship in his 22 years of coaching at Harvard, was not surprised by the outcome of the match. "I rather expected it," Marion said afterwards. "I figured out that we are better in foil and epee than any other team in the Ivies and while we started out very weak in sabre, we have improved to where we now have a solid squad...
...Harvard team then proceeded to the final round where they faced the number-two-seeded team of Ratliff and Swift from Virginia. After taking a tense first set, 7-6, Lindner and Ingard went on to overwhelm the Virginians in the second set, 6-3, to win the championship...
Harvard, Penn, and Princeton now have each lost one match this season; Harvard to Princeton, Princeton to Penn, and Penn to Harvard. The intercollegiate championship will be decided on the basis of comparative scores against common opponents...
...Harvard swimming team clinched at least a tie for the Eastern League swimming championship by pummeling Pennsylvania, 97-15, Saturday afternoon at the IAB. The win was the aquamen's ninth this season without a loss...