Word: columbia
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...head coach Joe Walsh said after the series with the Tigers. “I think we feel that we can put it together.”Although spirits were high, the Crimson lost six contests in a row to start Ivy play. Against Penn and Columbia, Harvard recorded just two runs in four games, but then salvaged a series split at Cornell after hanging on to a 2-1 win. In the first eight games of the regular season the Crimson hit .211.According to Vance, the non-conference schedule played a major role in the offensive struggles. The speed...
...mark. It started out on fire with six straight wins over local non-conference opponents (going 8-1 in non-league play), but managed just a 2-5 record against a very strong Ivy field. Harvard’s two conference wins came against Brown and Columbia. The first was a gritty win in which Harvard edged the Bears by a single goal, 14-13; the second victory came against Columbia, whom Harvard beat in an easier 12-8 decision. Sandwiched between those two wins was a five-game losing streak that took the Crimson out of league contention. Harvard?...
...roll after the tough start. Big wins against Cornell at an ever-unpredictable Schoellkopf Field—where the team suffered a surprising 27-13 setback in its last visit in 2005—and at home against Lafayette were flanked by three more victories against Princeton, Dartmouth, and Columbia. “It was definitely a determined mentality [before Cornell],” junior cornerback Andrew Berry said. “We knew that sort of stumbling out of the gates that there was no room for error...[The coaching staff] stressed that we needed to have a sense...
...against Penn State, served us well going into the Ivy League matches,” head coach Peter Brand said. But the tests rolled in during the spring season with the ever-competitive Ivy League stepping in to slow down the red hot Crimson. Clearly overmatched by two strong Columbia squads, both the men and women fell to the Lions as well as Penn, while the women also dropped a close 14-13 contest to Brown. Each team finished third in the Ancient Eight. “The break in the middle really took away some of our momentum...
...League start by dropping three of its final four Ancient Eight contests. Despite controlling its own destiny midway through the year, Harvard could not reverse a late-season slide that left the team tied for fourth place. Though the season-ending 2-1 loss at Columbia dashed the team’s hopes of finishing as high as second in the Ivies, the players feel confident that the team is on an upward trajectory. The late-fall fade represented a slight blip in an otherwise progressive trend—in 2006, the Crimson was 4-13, though...