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...blowout. The Crimson scored the first four goals of the game and built a 5-2 lead three minutes into the third period, putting the game seemingly out of reach.But the Engineers refused to go down easily, clawing their way back into the game by catching Harvard off guard with two late goals.“[The Engineers] never give up,” Stone said. “They play hard and smart and their goaltender did well. You have to learn to bury teams like that.”The Crimson did learn, in fact, and just...
...statistics, they play a very different tempo than we’re used to,” senior co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “They hit 600, but a lot of it was sort of tips and off-tempo stuff. They did catch us off our guard. It took us a game to adapt and be on our toes. [But] the next three games were great.” Harvard rallied in the second contest, starting off with an 8-5 lead over Stevens. But the Crimson couldn’t break away, and both teams remained neck...
...McNally and captain guard Andrew Pusar each missed the front-ends of one-and ones in that stretch as the team made just 1-of-6 attempts in the first half. It also turned the ball over 13 times, which would look worse if the visitors hadn’t gone one further, committing 14 turnovers in the first 20 minutes. In the second half, however, Penn turned it over only twice, compared to six for Harvard, helping the visitors overcome their 44.4 shooting percentage in the game...
...Harvard was poised to vault itself into the upper echelons of the Ivy standings. After two crippling defeats, the team is left guessing what to do next. “It’s almost like we need to [re]-learn how the win,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “We’re always expecting a close game. We need to play hard for [the full] forty minutes and let the rest follow.” The story of the game was defense—or lack thereof. Coming into the game, Princeton...
...most immediate and practical sense, the disaffection can already be measured in Rome. A generally supportive Vatican hierarchy was caught off guard by both the timing and substance of the boss's unilateral olive branch to a group that has shown little good will toward Rome ever since the four bishops were consecrated in open defiance of Pope John Paul II, the act that had prompted their 1988 excommunication. Among several loyal Pope backers inside the Roman Curia, none of whom wanted to be identified, there was widespread consternation about the entire episode - and major uncertainty about what happens next...