Word: championship
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...Harvard women’s soccer season was hanging in the balance this past weekend against Columbia. Win and the Crimson would earn a league championship and a berth into the NCAA tournament. Lose and the team’s year could be over. Given the stakes, Harvard needed one of its players to step up. The squad got just that, as junior Christina Hagner carried the Crimson to the Ivy League title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. In an all-or-nothing game, Hagner controlled the offensive attack from her forward position. She created opportunities...
...change: a women’s team—Columbia was the victim on Saturday—can be heckled the same as its men’s counterpart, and a band of naked men will get rowdy and rush the field just like it was a football championship. It may be hard to see, but if you look past the shirtless men and inappropriate cheers, you see how this means so much to a women’s team who has taken a huge step in its program’s history. “It was great...
...from an incredible long-range effort. The goal was indicative of the performances of the available seniors.The final stop on the road to the tournament for Harvard is a trip to Penn next weekend. For the Crimson, it’s simple: a win translates into an Ivy League championship.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...coach Phil Estes said. “You say to yourself ‘that will come back to haunt them.’” With 20-20 hindsight, that 24-22 loss to the Bears could be the difference-maker in terms of a Crimson Ivy championship repeat—though Brown’s loss to Yale Saturday affords Harvard a shot at a share of the title. But going into the home stretch of the Ivy schedule, the Crimson will have to perfect its special teams play for its final contests at Penn and against...
...Harvard pulls off a victory against Columbia on Saturday and wins the championship, it would be the team’s first Ivy League championship since...