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...Crimson needed to win just one of yesterday’s two games to claim the Ivy League North Division championship.But while Harvard (27-16, 12-8 Ivy) managed to score two runs, its efforts were simply too little, too late, as the Big Green’s defense held fast to end both the game, 5-2, and the Crimson’s two-year reign atop the North Division. The defeat came after a 4-0 shutout loss to Dartmouth earlier in the afternoon.“In the second game, we started making a comeback...
...Harvard women’s golf team managed to make it look easy, winning seven of eight tournaments this season and placing second in the other.The latest and greatest victory came this weekend in the Ivy League Championships at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., where the Crimson held off a final-round charge by Yale to win by two strokes and claim the league title for the second year in a row.“Yale played fantastic today,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said. “It did end up getting really close...
...Going into the fourth period on Saturday, things looked grim for the Crimson. The Hoosiers held a six-goal advantage and time was swiftly ticking away...
...rest of the game. Sophomore Katherine Martino kept the Crimson alive, holding Cornell to only seven goals and recording eight saves. “Kate Martino had some huge saves that kept us in the game,” Martin said. It was not only the goaltending that held the Big Red scoreless in the second half. The Crimson defense kept Cornell tame throughout the entire game, only allowing 15 shots through all 60 minutes. “At one point, [defenders] Delia Pais and Ellen Gleason had an unbelievable double team which really stuck out,” Flood...
...some of these big innings that have crushed us,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I’ve been trying to say to guys we have to slow the games down during those innings.”Walsh’s observations have held true for much of the season. In three of the squad’s last eight losses, Harvard watched otherwise even games fall apart by yielding five runs or more in an inning.While hypothetical situations are often convenient excuses, without the second inning on Saturday the Crimson would have entered...