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Playing a considerably more relaxed game after halftime, the Crimson was lucky to escape in the shortened match??despite likely being the stronger team. A typical polo match is divided into six, seven-and-a-half minute chukkers, or periods, with three minute breaks—five at halftime—to change horses between frames. The day’s matches featured just four chukkers...
...lineup in the new year, the team was unable to match its early season success. During the first two weeks of February, the Crimson battled No. 1 Penn, No. 2 Princeton, No. 3 Yale, and No. 5 Trinity, dropping all four contests. Against Penn, Harvard played a stellar match??the score was notted at three apiece heading into the final three matches. But the Crimson dropped two of three, managing only a Balsekar victory at No. 7 to fall, 5-4. Despite the defeat, players identified the match as their best of the season, considering the team...
...before heading back all alone to snowy Ithaca.Following Friday night’s loss, however, everything changed for Cornell. The Big Red’s precious one-game lead disappeared, Harvard capped off a furious comeback with a 71-70 win over Columbia, and an emerging Ivy League grudge match??Red versus Crimson—would take center stage on Saturday night.In the end, Maduka’s conflicting loyalties cost the Big Red a chance for its first-ever title.Maybe Cornell even tried to get its star back to Cambridge in time for a Willis Reed-esque...
...playing at a higher notch than he’s been able to sustain before. The semifinal he played was just sharp, sharp tennis. The [opponent] was firing bullets and Sasha just stayed in there toe to toe with him.”In that semifinal match??Ermakov’s second three-setter on a day in which he also played a lengthy doubles pro-set—he beat Columbia sophomore Jon Wong by a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Even before beating Crimson co-captain Dan Nguyen in three sets...
...star Jason Pinsky, lost to Penn State’s 35th ranked Michael James, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 1. Clayton, playing at No. 2, lost to the Nittany Lions’ hard-serving lefty Adam Slagter in what has come to be a Clayton trademark match??hard-fought and very long. This time, though, the three-set match??7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3—was just one of five Clayton-esque matches that the Crimson played. “It’s just not fun otherwise...