Word: championships
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...Harvard women’s water polo team (11-14, 4-6 CWPA) was able to overcome a dismal start to the Northern Division Championship on Saturday to end with a third-place finish yesterday. The Crimson dropped two games on the opening day of the championship—hosted by Connecticut College—to two ranked opponents. Harvard came up big on Sunday, however, as the Crimson scored a combined 38 goals in yesterday’s doubleheader. The team now awaits a decision from the Collegiate Water Polo Association to find out whether it will play...
...winning streak for Harvard but ended a seven-game skid for Rutgers-Newark. And while the Crimson and the Scarlet Pioneers split the division title, the loss gave Rutgers-Newark the edge in a tie-breaker, allowing the team to claim the top seed in the upcoming EIVA Conference Championship. Harvard will enter the postseason as the second team representing the Hay Division.“Going in, I felt that we knew what we had to do,” freshman Matt Jones said. “I feel like what might have happened was that because we?...
...Such an achievement would pay off in the short-term—giving the Crimson the seventh seed in the EIVA Conference Championship instead of the eighth—as well as set up Harvard for the future. The winner of the Hay division each year moves up into the Tait division, composed of teams like Penn State, currently ranked seventh in the country...
...come-from-behind victories as well, and Harvard’s season has not been short on drama.Given the Crimson’s proven mettle in close games, nobody is ruling out a late-season surge to put the squad atop the Rolfe Division and into the Ivy championship.“We just want to make sure we can play up to our capabilities and I think the wins will take care of themselves,” Walsh said. “This season, it hasn’t been about how good the other team is, it?...
...Shuman said. “We managed to play pretty well on Saturday, and [on Sunday] I felt like we took a step backwards, which is frustrating. But it’s good to see where we stack up.” After this weekend and with the league championship coming up in two weeks, the Crimson hopes to improve its position in the Ivy League—behind Yale, Penn, Columbia, and Princeton. “We weren’t just competing with Yale.” Shuman continued. “Everything is preparation...