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...East Coast, non-league showdown against Boston University, the Crimson won the first four points of the match to clinch victory and improve to .500 on the spring. Although B.U. won the final three singles matches on the afternoon, Harvard's 3-0 triumph in doubles and three opening straight set singles victories were enough to edge out the Terriers...
Junior Fleur Broughton and freshman Lola Ajilore clinched the doubles point for Harvard, squeezing out a 7-3 victory in the eight-game pro-set tiebreaker. Broughton and Ajilore were down 4-6 before storming back to tie the match at 7-7. The teams then split games to knot the match at 8-8. Ajilore and Broughton nailed big first serves throughout the tiebreaker to clinch the point...
...have outscored Harvard 42 to 27 in the final frame of play, meaning that the prospects of pulling off a come-back in the last 20 minutes was dim on paper. But the Crimson reversed that trend and popped four unanswered goals in the span of six minutes to clinch the game and the series...
Hanging on in eighth place, the Tigers have only a glimmer of a hope for home ice. Realistically, Princeton will have to settle for a post-season road trip, which it will clinch easily by taking at least one point against Harvard or Brown...
Dartmouth hosts both Providence and Northeastern this weekend in a playoff warm-up. The Big Green can potentially clinch the ECAC title to complement its Ivy League title...