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...Harvard sailing team in national championship regattas. After the women’s squad’s one-year hiatus from the national championship, the Crimson’s co-ed and women’s teams qualified for all three of their national affairs, with the contests taking place in the windy waters of San Francisco, Calif. “It is our goal to qualify for all three of the national championships every year,” senior skipper Jon Garrity said. The women’s squad finished its season with a 10th-place effort...
...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...
...next weekend’s contest against Dartmouth was looking grim until First Team All-Ivy sophomore Katherine Sheeleigh found the net late in the second half to give her team a 1-1 tie, setting up Harvard for a chance at the Ivy League Championship...
...Leigh McCoy stole the ball and blasted a shot into the goal to force overtime. Although Harvard survived the first overtime, it fell in the second extra period, 3-2. The Crimson experienced the emotional high point of the season in its next game against Yale. In a scoreless contest, freshman midfielder Carly Dickson earned a penalty stroke with ten minutes remaining. She lifted a shot into the top right corner, her first collegiate goal, to propel Harvard to a 1-0 victory. The Crimson dropped its next two games before entering its best stretch of the season. Against Vermont...
...semifinal draw was sixth-seeded RPI, a team that had never beaten the Crimson and was playing in its first-ever championship weekend. And though Harvard outshot the Engineers 50-17 for the game, missed Crimson chances and gritty play from RPI’s goaltender pushed the contest to overtime.Thirteen minutes into the extra session, with the Engineers’ power play about to expire, the puck was launched from the point and found its way past junior goaltender Christina Kessler’s glove.Game—and season—over.“Honestly, it?...