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...NCAA tournament in late May.In the first race of the day, Radcliffe bested Dartmouth by almost six seconds. Syracuse followed about four seconds back of the Big Green and Texas crossed another five seconds later. The Black and White seized a boat-length lead by the 500-meter mark and reclaimed the O’Leary Cup with a 6:22 finish for the sixth time in the nine years. “The best race of the weekend was the varsity eight against Notre Dame. It’s a big deal in the NCAA world and they handled...
...women completes a sweep of Yale this year—the Crimson women beat the Bulldogs in the fall cross country season and the winter indoor season—and Saturday’s win came in large part from sweeps in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the 100-meter hurdles, and the javelin.Dara Wilson’s 14.39 time in the 100-meter hurdles was not only good enough to win the event, but it also qualified the junior for the ECAC Championships. Classmate Shannon Flahive and rookie Jessica Fronk rounded out the top-three with...
...took two weeks of frustration and a serious sprint with 600 meters to go on Saturday morning, but the Harvard heavyweight varsity eight finally found its winning combination against archrival Princeton this weekend.The Crimson swept all four early morning races on the Charles River, but no victory was sweeter than the varsity’s 0.5-second thriller against the visiting Tigers. The two programs have won the last seven consecutive Eastern Sprints championships, with Harvard earning five gold medals and Princeton claiming two. The Tigers bested Harvard at the San Diego Crew Classic two weeks ago, but the Crimson?...
...However, a local bureau, MetService, is saying otherwise. What is clear is that at around 3:30 a downpour, described by OTC chief executive Grant Davidson as a "rain bomb," struck the area, causing an extremely rapid rise in the river's water level. It soared from 0.5 cubic meter to 18 cubic meters in half an hour, according to Davidson. "I have seen that amount of water but I have never seen it come down at that speed," he said. Trapped in a gorge, separated for reasons unclear from the rest of the party, doomed students and their teacher...
...done. We had some great performances all around.”Senior pole-vaulter Clara Blattler headlined the weekend’s action, besting the Harvard school record of 3.65 meters—which she set at last year’s UConn Invitational—by clearing 3.80 meters. The clearance ties her indoor personal best that she said at last year’s indoor Heptagonal Championships. She barely missed the Regional qualification—as the mark was raised from 3.80 to 3.85 this year—but walked away with first place in the event...