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...then there was the fact that this dual match would, for all practical purposes, crown the 2004 Ivy champion. The Crimson (15-6, 5-0 Ivy) and Brown (16-5, 4-1) sat tied atop the Ivy standings before the match, and though both still had to face Yale and Dartmouth before the season ended, neither competitor was expected to pose any threat...
...third win of the series and kept the Crimson right where it’s used to being—in the thick of things. Three wins against division-leading Dartmouth this weekend will put Harvard and the Big Green in a one-game playoff for the Red Rolfe crown. Four will put the Crimson in its third straight Ivy Championship Series. This is familiar ground, but to the novice Harvard baseball observer, it seemed unreachable Saturday afternoon...
...only other undefeated Ivy, Harvard still had to overpower the Bulldogs (8-11, 3-3) to clinch a third straight NCAA bid—that is, even if the Crimson lost to either Yale or Dartmouth on Wednesday and the Bears tied for the Ivy crown, the NCAA would accept the head-to-head winner, Harvard...
With only two games separating worst from first in a loaded Red Rolfe division, a good weekend will propel Harvard (15-14-1, 8-4 Ivy)—currently a game behind division-leading Dartmouth—into prime position to claim its third-straight Red Rolfe crown. A bad weekend could end the Crimson’s chance at the postseason...
...this is just great preparation for the NCAAs,” Harvard coach David Fish ’72 said in reference to the NCAA berth his team would earn with an Ivy crown. “Arguably [there will be] really tough conditions for us, but it’s exactly the kind of circumstance we want to be in to prepare for an equally challenging NCAA...