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...Vertovez said. “After we lost that first game, it was kind of a shocker. We didn’t expect to lose that first one and in the second we put too much pressure on ourselves and that’s when things fell apart. It’s not like we gave it to them on Sunday, they played better than us so they took it.” Despite the disappointing end to the season, Harvard can look forward to a strong returning squad in 2010. Graduating only two seniors and with six returning juniors?...
...field that included national powerhouses Georgia and California. Harvard was no less dominant against Ancient Eight competition. The team won its first five league meets by an average of 93 points before running into its first major competition in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet. The Crimson fell to Princeton, 170.5-148.5, in head-to-head competition. The sheer number of wins generated by the Tigers’ superstars made a dual meet victory difficult for Harvard to attain, but the Crimson was able to get even at the championship meet, where the scoring format tends to favor depth...
...McKinley played in all 97 of Harvard’s games, and the statistical pinnacle of her play came on Oct. 10 and 11 at Brown and Yale, when the senior racked up a combined 46 kills and 39 digs. But despite McKinley’s efforts, Harvard fell in both games...
...Dartmouth derailed the Crimson’s shot at a NCAA Tournament spot—and this year, the Ivy League title slipped away with it.Playing for a share of the championship and a chance at a one-game playoff for the league’s tournament spot, Harvard fell uncharacteristically flat, going down, 64-51, to the Big Green in Hanover, N.H. on March 10.“Unfortunately, in the biggest game of the season, we played our worst,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said after the loss.But while a third consecutive championship may have...
...sophomore midfielder Chloe Keating. The Crimson dropped its next three games, including a heartbreaker against UMass. Trailing the Minutewomen, 2-1, in the closing minutes, sophomore forward 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...