Word: momentum
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...competitive squash at a time when most of Harvard’s rivals are on winter break and out of practice. “It was a good warm-up for the next couple months,” O’Donnell said. “We have some momentum.” The first CSA rankings of the season were released on December 17 and placed the Crimson at No. 3, behind only No. 1 Princeton (3-0, 2-0 Ivy) and No. 2 Penn (3-0, 3-0 Ivy). Harvard plays both the Tigers (February...
...Princeton zone and directed the puck to freshman forward Michael Del Mauro. “[Del Mauro] found me in the slot and made a beautiful pass to me, and I basically had a wide-open net,” Fraser said. As the second period progressed, momentum gradually swung toward the Tigers, which outshot the Crimson, 18-9, for the period after Harvard enjoyed a 13-4 advantage in the first. Most of this offensive disparity stemmed from Princeton’s four-minute man advantage in the middle of the second period. For half of that time...
...heading into the break. “They were hitting shots, and we weren’t,” junior guard Emily Tay said. “We didn’t step up when we needed to.” When Harvard finally did get some momentum, it was by looking inside to Rollins, the team’s best player on the night. Rollins, who scored 16 of her game-high 18 points in the second half, refused to let Dartmouth pull away, making big basket after big basket down the stretch. “They knew...
...classmates Paul Dufault, who brought it up the right side and wove around a Bobcat defender to find freshman Michael Biega. Biega finished off the pass at 16:03 for his eighth goal in as many games to cut Harvard’s deficit in half. But Quinnipiac regained momentum as the clock ran down on the opening frame. The Bobcats charged toward the Crimson net on a 2-on-1, and though Richter blocked the first shot, Dan Travis buried the rebound with 16 seconds left to bring a 3-1 lead into the intermission. The Crimson entered...
...close and detailed perspective on the candidates. In the tradition of retail politics, many voters can meet candidates in person and take time to get to know their positions. Second, the extended schedule allows candidates with relatively little money or national name recognition, such as Huckabee, to gain momentum on the strength of their appeal to voters who have plumbed their positions firsthand. Lastly, we believe that states like Iowa that hold caucuses should switch to a traditional primary system. The caucus system itself is notoriously undemocratic. The process, which takes several hours and does away with the secret ballot...