Word: clinch
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Still, defeating RPI meant a virtual clinch of a top-five finish for the Crimson and home ice for the first round of the playoffs. Harvard is now ahead of the Engineers by three points with two games remaining. A tie will send round one to Bright fro the first time since 1997-98. But third place is important because it will mean avoiding the Thursday play-in game should Harvard win its first round series and advance to Lake Placid...
Penn has been able to keep that focus thus far and can clinch the Ivy League title with two more wins this weekend...
Both Crimson squads blanked Yale 9-0 last night to end their regular seasons with an unblemished 6-0 league mark and clinch their respective Ivy League titles outright...
When rookie phenom Louisa Hall--the Crimson's No. 1 player and Colby's younger sister--stepped onto the court, Harvard needed just one more win to clinch the title...
Hall made quick work of Yale's Catherine Fiederowicz in three sets to clinch the league title. After falling behind 4-0 in the first game, Hall rallied back to win it 9-5, and then had just one point scored on her in the remainder of the match...