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Having won consecutive games to start the season, the No. 12/11 Harvard men’s lacrosse team faced No. 19/17 UMass on Saturday afternoon at Cumnock Turf. The Minutemen got out to an early lead and never relinquished it, defeating the Crimson 7-3. UMass first got on the scoreboard midway through the opening period when senior attacker Jim Connolly sent a pass across the crease to teammate Bobby Hayes. From 15 yards out, Hayes ripped a shot top-shelf past Harvard goaltender Joe Pike. Three minutes later, the Minutemen got another goal. Connolly, the team?...
...connecting on the open looks that it was able to create over a tight Bears defense. With under 13 minutes to go in the half, Harvard co-captain Emily Tay hit three mid-range jumpers in a row to jump-start the offense, giving the Crimson a 15-8 lead. The tempo of the game picked up at this point, as Brown forced turnovers and Harvard took control on offense. The Crimson had to earn each offensive trip over the half-court line, carefully swinging the ball laterally between guards until one had room to push it forward. Harvard protected...
...HARVARD 5, TOWSON 3Seven innings wasn’t enough for the back and forth duel between Harvard and Towson (8-4) on Friday afternoon. After going down 1-0 in the first inning, the Crimson struck back with two runs in the third. After the Tigers regained the lead with a two-run frame of their own, Zumbro stepped in and pitched over three innings of scoreless ball. Co-captain Hayley Bock tied the game with a solo shot that sent the contest into extra innings at 3-3. Brown picked up her second win of the weekend, allowing...
...coach Brian Baise said. “We were able to score the points when we needed them, which is something we’ve struggled to do.”Points indeed came at big moments for the Crimson, which labored through five sets to dispatch the league-leading Scarlet Raiders on Friday night, before cruising to a much more comfortable four set win over NJIT on Saturday. HARVARD 3, NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1The Crimson avoided a potential letdown after a tremendous victory on Friday night, demonstrating its focus early on to take the first two sets...
...tallied 16 and 11 respectively.One of Housman’s hoops came at the end of the first half. With his team down one, he brought the ball up, drove the lane, and threw up a shot that rattled in at the buzzer, giving his guys a 33-32 lead at the break. The stage looked set for a nail-biting second half, but the Crimson would not follow the script.“We had twenty minutes left in our season,” Harris said. “We felt bad for Andy because he couldn?...