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...Four straight victories—including a 12-3 drubbing of No. 20 Fairfield—leads Harvard into its first Ivy League matchup this weekend and arguably one of the toughest midseason stretches in the country: Penn, followed by No. 1 Duke, Denver, No. 9 Cornell, and No. 13 Princeton...
After almost an entire period of scoreless back-and-forth hockey, it appeared that the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team was in store for another postseason nail-biter in its matchup with Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center.But with the final seconds of the first period of the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament ticking down, Crimson junior Jenny Brine scored a goal that gave Harvard a 1-0 lead and opened the floodgates for the Crimson offense. Harvard defeated the Big Green, 5-1, in front of 1,497 fans to advance...
...feisty visitors.“We just started out really slowly,” senior Jamie Crooks said. “Our starting point was so low that by the time we came back to really play it was too late.”Harvard lost its second matchup of the year to the Trojans by a score of 3-1 (30-20, 30-27, 25-30, 30-28) and the hosts dropped the first two games without posting much of a challenge at all.But with its back against the wall the Crimson still found a way to delight...
...quadruple-overtime loss to the Badgers. Now, the Crimson finds itself in the same game, albeit with a different opponent. One big difference between this season and last is that Harvard now has home ice advantage. While last year the Crimson traveled to Madison, Wis.,tomorrow’s matchup against the Big Grenn will be skated in Cambridge.“[The crowd] is a seventh player on the ice for us,” Vaillancourt said. “Everyone knows that and everyone wants home advantage. We deserve it. It’s something we have worked...
...will have her back this time around, and Maduka gave the Crimson forwards fits en route to a double-double in the Big Red’s blowout win in Ithaca last month.Of course, Harvard won’t have the privilege of worrying about Sunday’s matchup with Cornell unless it takes care of business against Dartmouth tomorrow night. The Big Green and the Crimson are perennial rivals, as these two teams have dominated Ancient Eight women’s hoops over the last decade. This season, Dartmouth jumped out to a 10-point halftime lead...