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...numb him to the significance of Saturday’s win over Princeton. It was a rivalry game against Harvard’s decade-long nemesis in the battle for Ivy League supremacy and against the squad that ended the Crimson’s NCAA aspirations with an Ivy Championship Series sweep last May. It was the junior right-hander’s first victory of the season, his first in over 11 months. And it came over Tigers ace Christian Staehely, who was named the preseason Ivy League Pitcher of the Year despite Haviland returning to defend the honor...
...changed since Harvard and Princeton last faced each other in the 2006 Ivy Championship Series. Both teams graduated key contributors since last May’s playoffs, and freshmen are playing important roles in 2007.The weather is also a little different: the temperature at O’Donnell Field on Saturday never broke 40 degrees. In a rematch of the two Ancient Eight division champs from a year ago, Harvard and Princeton split a doubleheader, the third consecutive twinbill split for the Crimson. The Tigers took game one, 6-4, in extra innings behind a complete-game effort from Steven...
...Given that three out of the team’s five competitors this weekend were freshmen, the Crimson is eager to use its poor performance on Day 2 as learning experience to ensure that this young squad brings a more focused and competitive team to the Ivy League Championship in two weeks time. “The best thing I can pick out of this [learning experience] is just that the second day is long and different,” Shore said. “What you do the first day really does not affect what you do the second...
Amaker was a point guard at Duke University under coach Mike Krzyzewski, playing on the team that lost in the NCAA championship game in 1986, the same season Amaker won the national Defensive Player of the Year award. He was an assistant coach under Kryzewski at Duke from 1988-97 before getting his first head coaching job at Seton Hall University. In four years in New Jersey he never failed to make the postseason, as the Pirates advanced to the National Invitational Tournament three times and reaching the NCAA Tournament Sweet...
...captain Max Meltzer said. “But as we have gone through the year, I guess I knew something special was going to happen. The sky was the limit.”At Oxford Academy in New York, O’Connor garnered four New York state championship titles and was a five-time sectional champion. O’Connor was also named first team All-America and a member of the Amateur Wrestling News Dream Team. Ranked number one in his weight-class for Nation’s Best 2006 High School Wrestlers, O’Connor finished...