Word: columbia
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...Harvard women’s soccer season was hanging in the balance this past weekend against Columbia. Win and the Crimson would earn a league championship and a berth into the NCAA tournament. Lose and the team’s year could be over. Given the stakes, Harvard needed one of its players to step up. The squad got just that, as junior Christina Hagner carried the Crimson to the Ivy League title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. In an all-or-nothing game, Hagner controlled the offensive attack from her forward position. She created opportunities...
While the Quakers clashed with the Princeton Tigers last weekend, registering an unsatisfying double overtime 0-0 tie, Harvard easily surpassed its formidable Columbia opponents, dazzling the Lions...
...penalty shot. After Harvard freshman striker Melanie Baskind was fouled inside the box, junior Lizzy Nichols stepped into the box and lined up for the shot. Charging towards the ball, she slammed the ball into the upper left corner of the net, sealing the win over Columbia (11-4-2, 4-2-1 Ivy), the defending conference champions. With its 2-1 victory, Harvard (10-3-4, 5-1-1) is the Ivy League champion for the first time since 1999. “I think it was tough, and I give a lot of credit to [Nichols] for being...
...them on the ropes. Friday night, it was a matter of a couple of blocks, and with Princeton, it was the slide attack that resulted in us falling short.” The Crimson finishes out the season on a road trip to New York next weekend, playing Columbia on Friday and Cornell the next day.“We had joked around about steamrolling [the opposing team] each time,” Weiss said. “That’s what we plan on doing on the road to New York.”PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 2The...
...greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning the game and the Ivy title in a 2-1 double-overtime thriller. What mattered nearly as much was what happened off the field. The crowd packed the stands, spiraling out to the Columbia side of the field. From the final 10 minutes of regulation until Lizzy Nichols’ penalty kick winner with nine seconds to go, no one sat down. For almost 30 minutes of Saturday’s game, no one stopped cheering. For a team that is often overshadowed by its men?...