Word: duals
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With a tough tournament schedule earlier in the season, in which the Crimson was a formidable foe against some of the best teams in the nation (including Iowa State, Oklahoma, and Nebraska), Harvard entered the dual meet season ready for action...
...share of the Ivy title was an appropriate ending to a remarkable dual meet season, especially for the core of seniors--co-captains Matt Picarsic and Fran Volpe, Adam Truitt, and David Dinin--who have been instrumental in the program's overwhelming success over the past few years...
Later that afternoon, in the last battle of the dual meet season, Harvard soundly defeated Boston University 32-4. In the most exciting match of the meet, Truitt capped off his illustrious Harvard career by reversing his opponent in the last seconds of the match to pull out a 3-2 win. The win was all the more impressive because Truitt bumped up to wrestle at 184-pounds, filling in for Volpe who did not wrestle against Brown...
...Though it was great to win the elusive Ivy title--something no Harvard team has every done--our team has been focused on the Eastern tournament since the beginning of the year,"Picarsic said. "So maybe more importantly, winning the Ivy title, not to mention our last seven dual meets, has given us a big confidence boost heading into Easterns...
...thing is clear from the current EIWA picture and the outcome of the dual meet season, it is that the title is definitely up for grabs. Such is the case since Lehigh has lost two of its best starters to injury...