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...much harder to lose that way,” Simmons said at the time. “Had we gone into overtime, we would have had the momentum...
...trend that would mark the whole season: against then-No. 18 DePaul on Nov. 18, Harvard found itself in an insurmountable 47-18 deficit at the half. At Virginia a few weeks later, the Crimson faced a 31-22 halftime hole in Charlottesville, and not even the momentum of a sustained second half run could bring Harvard back after a stagnant first half.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts] out,” said Delaney-Smith after the conclusion of the Ivy season. “I guess people would say that?...
...Fifth-seeded St. Lawrence took Game 1 of the best-of-three quarterfinal series and led 2-1 after two periods in Game 2.But Harvard scored two goals in the third period to even the series before exploding for eight scores in Game 3. The Crimson carried its offensive momentum into the ECAC Final Four, dominating Dartmouth 10-1 in the semifinal before deposing Cornell with a 6-2 victory in the championship game.Harvard’s remarkable run earned the squad a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. But despite playing its first-round matchup...
...golf simulator provided by the Friends of Harvard Golf, but it wasn’t until spring break that the team could return to the outdoors in Jekyll Island, Ga., for the first time in five months. “Over the winter, you pretty much lose all the momentum and confidence you had from the fall,” junior Tom Hegge said. Improvement after Georgia was readily apparent throughout the short spring season. After a rain-shortened tournament at Yale, Harvard played its best golf of the spring at the New England Division I Championships. The team hung...
...Yale and Minnesota-Duluth twice on the road. The autumn rut culminated in a 3-0 dissection at the hands of New Hampshire, the first shutout suffered by the program in over four years. Although the team showed signs of improvement heading into 2006, regression or exams broke the momentum, as the Crimson was thrashed again by UNH and went winless in consecutive Ivy matchups against Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, and Princeton, the latter clash an ugly 6-1 beating in New Jersey. The nadir surely arrived on Valentine’s Day, when Boston College wrested the Beanpot trophy away...