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...fourth quarter, then bolted the door on defense to hold on for the win. Crimson coach Erik Farrar was quite visibly pumped and was much more excited to talk about that game than he had been the previous night. No surprise there, as this was an exponentially more important contest, and the players performed appropriately...
...something we should keep in mind more often. We as sportswriters are among the most guilty of describing a performance as “heroic,” or writing about the “battles” in the “trenches” during a contest between students. We’d be remiss not to acknowledge these things for what they really are, too—just games...
...finish for a tense encounter. Chijoff-Evans proved to be the victor, holding on to a 9-7 win. Columbia, which would prove to be a thorn in the Crimson’s side later on in the spring season, was Havard’s opponent in another narrow contest. The Crimson lost both its doubles games and found itself down a point early in the meeting. But senior Sasha Ermakov, sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien, and freshman Davis Mangham were able to turn the tables as Harvard went up, 3-1. Columbia bounced back to take two more singles matches...
...felt like we could have come out on top in at least two out of three of those.” Squeaking into the Harvard-hosted Eastern Championships as the eighth seed, the Crimson dropped its first two games against Hartwick and Indiana before winning its final contest of the season against Bucknell to determine seventh place. “It was also exciting for us to finish out on a win, especially in our home pool,” MacLaughlin said. Anchored by the two co-captains, the team relied heavily on its numerous freshmen in the pool. Kennifer...
...that being said, it was great to be in it until the last game.”Harvard opened the season with a win for the first time in five years, and followed up tournament play in Kansas with tournament victories in Boca Raton and Radford. In the last contest, the Crimson edged out the Highlanders, who were recently ousted in the first round of the 2009 NCAA tournament, 3-2, to nab the title.But Harvard couldn’t maintain its preseason momentum, as the team split with perennial basement-dweller Columbia in its Ivy opener. Though the Crimson...