Word: laxmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Pendergasi made 16 saves against the Hens... The loss dropped Harvard's record to 1-5 (0-3 in Ivy competition)... The laxmen have a pair of home games ahead this week they will meet UNH on Wednesday and Yale Saturday afternoon...New Hampshire held the top ranking in the most recent New England poll, but suffered a 13-10 loss to Brown on Saturday...
With a loss to the nation's top-ranked team, Johns Hopkins, as their only game preparation, the laxmen took their annual run at the nine-time defending Ivy champion, Cornell. The Big Red dumped the Crimson in Ithaca, 14-9. Harvard barely beat a weaker Boston College Squad, 9-8 in overtime, Tuesday, then self-destructed Saturday against Penn in a 12-7 loss, probably dooming its title hopes...
Despite the laxmen's strong showing on defense, Hopkins extended its advantage to 8-1 at the close of the second stanza. Penalties helped sink Harvard, ultimately accounting for half of the Hopkins goals...
...Crimson did well to stay with the perennial contenders for much of the game. Last year Hopkins administered a 19-2 drubbing to a Harvard squad that wound up with a 9-4 record. The 1982 laxmen compiled, a 4-2 Ivy mark to earn second in the league. Senior Tri-Captain Tim Pendergrast, who turned i a solid performance in goal, was pleased with the defense in front of him. He credited "some of the younger players who played like juniors and seniors" for Harvard's relative success...
Saturday's win secured for Harvard the mythical New England championship and boosted the laxmen into a three-way tie with Dartmouth and Princeton for second place in the final Ivy League standings. The Crimson compiled a 4-2 Ivy record {a loss would have dropped the team to fourth place: Cornell once again won the title} and a 9-4 overall mark for the season...