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...practice this week,” Barrett said, “we really started turning up the intensity and started to run faster...We tried to translate that over to the meet.” The women’s team, reeling after its blowout defeat to Princeton and Yale last weekend, recovered with a solid, if unspectacular, performance on Saturday at the Meet of Champions, finishing No. 7 out of 18 teams and placing five women in the first 52 finishers. The meet marked the season debut of standout All-American Lindsey Scherf, who had been sidelined...
...second half after trailing the hosts 2-0 through efficient and concise play, highlighted by a brilliant display of artistry to cut the lead in half. Unfortunately for Harvard, the equalizer would not come, and the team left the field with a 2-1 loss, its second defeat in as many games. The Crimson battled valiantly through most of the first half, keeping pace with the hosts as the teams traded glancing blows at the goal to no avail. Characterized generally as an even half of steadiness with brief occurrences of excitement, the Rams (3-3-3) quickly managed...
Just like that, a season’s worth of nightmares were wiped away. Taking the court for its first Ivy match since going winless in league play last year, the Harvard women’s volleyball team defeated travel partner Dartmouth, 3-1 (30-26, 25-30, 30-27, 30-27) Friday night at the Malkin Athletic Center, snapping a 14-match Ancient Eight losing streak. On a weekend where the other six Ivy squads continued to face non-league opponents, the Crimson (3-5, 1-0 Ivy) and the Big Green (3-4, 0-1 Ivy) squared...
After coming out on top in a back-and-forth Game One battle, the Harvard women’s volleyball team rode the momentum to defeat Maine, 3-1 (35-33, 30-23, 25-30, 30-21), at the Malkin Athletic Center in Saturday afternoon’s exhibition action. “That was a very important game to win,” said Crimson coach Jennifer Weiss of the game one victory, which included 25 tie scores and ten lead changes. In the first frame, the teams traded points most of the way, and Maine (2-10) staved...
...also came in fourth and fifth to lock up the victory for the Bulldogs. Harvard senior Sean Barrett, freshman Ben Gutierrez and junior Brian Holmquest finished sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively, but those showings were not enough to overcome Yale’s top-heavy performance. Despite the defeat, the Crimson remained optimistic as to its prospects for the rest of the season. “We really hadn’t done a whole lot to get ready for [the Yale meet], in terms of actual speed stuff,” Barrett said. “The [Heptagonal Championships...