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Whew. That’s how Joe Walsh described how his Harvard team felt before its Ivy Championship Series date with Princeton last spring. After surviving the brutal gauntlet of the Rolfe Division—last-place Yale finished with an 11-9 mark, or the same record as the Gehrig Division-winning Tigers—the Crimson exhaled when it saw black and orange in the visitors’ dugout. “Maybe we needed to be on edge like we were every weekend,” Walsh said, “knowing that if you drop...
Eager to erase the disappointment of last season’s Ivy Championship Series loss to Princeton, Harvard trots out a squad in 2007 that will bring small ball back to O’Donnell Field and rely on a green but talented pitching staff. Preseason Ivy League Player of the Year Steffan Wilson anchors the lineup from his spot at third base...
...Casey did start to come on towards the end of the campaign. He struck his first home run of the season in Harvard’s division-clinching 23-9 win over Dartmouth and went 4-for-7 in the team’s season-ending Ivy Championship Series sweep at the hands of Princeton, carrying that momentum into this spring...
Harvard’s outstanding regular season ended when Princeton pulled the plug on its championship plans, sweeping the first two games of the Ivy League Championship Series last May at O’Donnell Field. Just like that, Vance’s stolen time had run out, and the time came to face the looming shoulder surgery. While his teammates were playing in the nation’s top summer leagues, Vance was at home in California, recovering from the operation and working at Staples—“the worst job ever,” he jokes...
...talented players at all positions but stands to benefit greatly from the new division alignment. It gets four games against Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth, three of the weaker teams in the league, while avoiding powerhouses Princeton and Cornell. That combination should earn Harvard a berth in the inaugural Ivy Championship, where, presumably, anything can happen...