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Last March, members of the Harvard women’s basketball team took advantage of the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four location in Boston and attended the national title game between Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) powerhouses Maryland and Duke. The matchup delivered on its promise of championship excitement, as the two teams battled into overtime and the Terrapins eventually emerged with a 78-75 victory...
...Harvard fencing team entered competition with national champion status, poised to qualify as many fencers as possible for a run at another NCAA title.Unfortunately, that shot now comes with a handicap.Yesterday’s NCAA Regional Championships at Tufts included many ups and downs. The Crimson qualified nine fencers for Nationals, two each in the men’s saber and foil and women’s epee, and one each in women’s foil and saber and men’s epee.To the average sports fan, it would seem that doing so would put the team...
...afternoon at Jordan Field trying to prove that they are two good teams who have just been under-performing.And it was the Minutemen who escaped with a narrow 11-10 victory after maintaining a steady lead for most of the game.UMass, which played in last year’s NCAA championship game against Virginia, returned only one of its starting attackmen this year.The Crimson’s leading scorer last year, senior attackman Evan Calvert, played his first game back from injury, but was “playing hurt,” according to Harvard coach Scott Anderson...
...Coaches’ Poll. The youth movement has been led by Goldfeder, who has fenced much of the spring season with a nagging thumb injury on her weapon hand. The Rochester N.Y. native, apparently unfazed by the handicap, placed first in this past weekend’s IFA Individual Championship for women’s foil as Harvard won its third consecutive IFA three-weapon title. “You never know what even an experienced fencer is going to do for you in the first year,” Brand said. “But in this case...
It’s now or never. Hoping to take its fourth ECAC championship in six years, the seventh-seeded Harvard men’s hockey team will challenge the No. 2 seeded Clarkson in a best-of-three quarterfinal series, which begins tonight at 7 p.m. at the Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y. “Every game is the most important game of the year from here on out, no doubt,” captain Dylan Reese said. As the defending champion of the ECAC tournament, the Crimson looks for a win to advance to the ECAC Final...