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...performing consistently for us on a given evening. There has got to be something extra from the Harvard side.” Earlier this year at Bright Hockey Center, against a highly touted squad from the University of New Hampshire and its bitter rival Dartmouth, Harvard came away with hard-fought ties.But on Friday night, the Crimson (15-4-2, 12-3-1 ECAC) finally broke as No. 6 St. Lawrence (20-5-2, 12-4-0) scored with 50 seconds left and then held on the victory. The loss was the first at home for Harvard this season...
...captain Dylan Reese said. “In my mind, we outplayed two of the teams evenly and were semi-even with the other team.”Harvard will return to the ice against Union this Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center.HARVARD 2, QUINNIPIAC 2A hard-fought tie sounds oxymoronic, but the Crimson will take it given that Harvard rallied from a 2-0 deficit against the Bobcats.The Crimson surrendered a power-play goal in the first period, and the Bobcats added a second freak goal when a crossing pass deflected off of the skate of a Quinnipiac...
...third set,” Fish said. “It was a good tournament for him—probably a little hard on him not to get the brass ring at the end,” he said.Clayton had a little more success at Columbia, going 1-1 in singles competition. He beat Phillip Stephens from Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, before losing a hard-fought three set battle to Columbia’s Mark Clemente, 7-5, 6-7, 7-5. Clemente went on to take the singles title.“He lost...
...bullseye.Harvard entered the game at 1-10, the team’s lone win coming against San Jose State, then 0-7, in a tournament game in Berkeley, Calif. The Crimson had been spanked by then-No. 16 Cal, downed by streaking Wisconsin, and had lost a hard-fought home game to No. 23 BYU. And the Eagles? BC was 9-3 and had won five of its last six. Just a month earlier, the Eagles dropped a double-overtime thriller to then-No. 6 Ohio State in an 80-72 loss.Improbable it was—both that Harvard...
...would Senate Republicans choose the controversial Lott after an electoral drubbing that saw them lose, among other things, the hard-fought progress they had made with nonwhite voters, especially African Americans? And why pick someone who is known to have an ax to grind with the White House at a time when the party should regroup and unify...