Word: matchup
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...hockey team, ranked sixth in the latest national poll, will face top-ranked University of Wisconsin on Saturday night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. A six-one pairing is not the most logical but, in this case, seems to reflect a decision to avoid an intra-conference matchup between the Crimson and third-ranked Dartmouth.“I am on the [NCAA selection] committee, so I sort of anticipated they were going to do that,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Though the other determining factor, more importantly, is that they really...
...second-seeded Sanchez proved to be a difficult opponent to overcome. After Sanchez won the second game, 9-7, Suchde fought hard to regain control of the contest and pulled out the third game, 10-8. Feeding off the momentum, Suchde controlled the final game, winning 9-2. The matchup pitted two familiar opponents against each other. Suchde and Sanchez met twice previously this season during clashes between their respective teams. Both times, the Princeton sophomore walked away with the win. But the third time was the charm for Suchde. With Princeton’s four-time individual champion Yassar...
...Senior Night, after graduating co-captains Christiana Lackner and Kyle Dalton were honored with a pre-game ceremony. The victory proved to be much more difficult than expected, after Harvard had outscored the Lions by a margin of 29 points in the teams’ first matchup and had clinched the outright Ivy League title the night before. Columbia (8-20, 4-10) kept it within 13 points on Saturday, not allowing the champs to get away with an easy win.“This is, in the books, the hardest game to play,” Harvard coach Kathy...
Having lost to division rival St. Lawrence twice already this season, the Crimson could not manage a victory during its ECAC semifinals matchup with the Saints on Saturday. No. 5 St. Lawrence (28-6-3) defeated No. 6 Harvard (23-7-2) by a score of 4-3 at Dartmouth’s Thompson Arena in Hanover...
...game featured an intriguing individual matchup between star centers Harbec and Chu, the top two scorers in the ECAC. The two have developed a strong friendship off the ice, and feed off of each other’s intensity when they play against each another...