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...Center on Saturday in No. 7 Harvard’s season-opener after a year-long absence to participate in the Olympics, the question was: will Sarah Vaillancourt notch a hat trick? Yesterday, when the Crimson (2-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC) took to the ice against conference doormat Union (2-4-0, 0-2-0) the question was: how quickly will Sarah Vaillancourt notch a hat trick? The answer, amazingly, was less than 21 minutes. Fresh off a three-goal, eight-point effort in an 11-0 drubbing of Rensselaer the day before, the sophomore winger poured...
...four years, head coach Peter Brand has turned a program that was once an Ivy League doormat into what is looking like a national powerhouse...
...can’t beat that,” captain Erik Grimm said. “Winning all four years is a huge accomplishment for the senior class.”It was also a huge accomplishment considering the circumstances. A Brown win that same day against conference doormat Columbia, a virtual certainty, meant no share of an Ivy title for the Crimson. In the big picture, Harvard could look forward only to a second-place-tie with Princeton and some big bragging rights.“There was definitely the exhilaration of beating Yale,” Grimm said...
...continue an upward trend that began with a pair of wins last weekend, it will have affirmed its position in a four-team championship hunt. If it loses, the Crimson (7-11, 3-2) will return from its road trip, which also includes a tilt tomorrow with league doormat Penn (3-15, 1-4), without any real hope for its fourth title of the 21st century. According to head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, though, no one contest is that crucial. “We can’t think in terms of that,” she said...
...issues for us,” Sifers said. “We can’t let the referees dictate the game. But we battled through [the penalties] and got good experience on the penalty kill.”Harvard returns home for a pair of clashes versus conference doormat this weekend at the Bright Hockey Center. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...