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...McKinley both recorded double-doubles in kills and digs and Trimble recorded 16 kills to lead the team past Lafayette, 3-0 (30-27, 30-23, 20-30, 30-22), on Friday evening.The Crimson won a tight first game and coasted in the second frame before failing to clinch the victory over the Leopards in the third game. In game four, the Crimson pulled away late after being tied at 20. Harvard wrapped up the win with a strong sequence that began with a Trimble kill, continued with two service aces by sophomore Chelsea Ono Horn, and ultimately concluded with...
...record and a 2.60 ERA, ranking ninth in the league. On the field, the Crimson first found real success over spring break. Competing in Macon, Ga., for the Mercer Nissan Invitational, Harvard won four straight games after dropping its opener, beating Wright State, 5-4, to clinch the title. The Crimson opened Ivy League play against its South Division opponents and went 4-4, sweeping Penn and Princeton while getting swept by Columbia and Cornell. But once intra-divisional play began, Harvard surged. The Crimson started off in the North Division by winning three of four at Yale behind great...
...Crimson rattled off a 23-9 record, including a stretch in which it went 14-1. Coming into the final weekend of play against Dartmouth, Harvard found itself atop the Ivy League North Division, leading the Big Green by just one game. The Crimson won three of four to clinch the division. The following weekend, Harvard hosted Penn in the Ivy League Championship series. The best-of-three series ended after the Crimson took the first two games, 4-0 and 4-2. For the team’s four seniors, it was the perfect way to end a career...
...rebound after Maki and sophomore Brian McCafferty attempted to put it away, hitting the back of the net to give the Crimson a 3-0 lead. With two minutes left on the clock, Meintel crossed the puck to freshman Alex Biega, who tapped it into the empty net to clinch Harvard’s 4-0 shutout. “It just gave us a lot of confidence,” Reese said. “I think it turned it around for us a little, but we weren’t able to generate any solid momentum through...
...Spielberg is a noted fan and the movie plans come a quarter of a century after he first bought an option to film the character. Just before his death, at age 75 in 1983, Hergé was poised to clinch a production deal, but after reading in the contract that Spielberg might not direct the films himself, he refused to sign...