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Senior Brian Holmquest and freshman Claire Richardson led the Harvard cross country teams to top-eight finishes at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet on Saturday, rounding out the 2007 cross country season for the Crimson. The men’s team finished seventh in a 34-team field, while the women were eighth out of the same field.Holmquest, Harvard’s top finisher at the Ivy League Heptagonals Championships two weeks before, finished 23rd overall out of 235 competitors, clocking in at 30:29.95. “I got out pretty well, pretty controlled,” Holmquest said...
...close to being a 20-win team again last year,” Donato said. “So I don’t think anybody in that [locker] room thinks that we’re not a team that can challenge for the league title and be an NCAA [Tournament]-type team.”NET GAINIt might have been easy to think that Kyle Richter became the Harvard goaltender by default. After all, the only truly viable alternative, Justin Tobe ’07, graduated after winning the starting job over Richter late last season.Richter, however, isn?...
...coach Ray Leone said. “And along with that growth you get some ups and downs—but most of it was up.” Harvard went into the game hoping to get a win that might take the squad to the NCAA Tournament as an at-large selection. “It was a pretty emotional game,” sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Mann said. “We tried to play for ourselves, play for our seniors, and play for a chance in the tournament, but it just didn’t really...
...Crimson to 2-1-0, its first time above .500 after a disappointing 2006-07 season. “I don’t think anybody in that [locker] room thinks that we’re not a team that can challenge for the league title and be an NCAA [Tournament]-type team, so this is a good start,” Donato said. “I like the fact that even when we’re not playing our best and we’re still feeling our way, we’re winning games?...
...NCAA realized as much when it told the University of Illinois in 2005 that it could not host playoff games until Chief Illiniwek was retired. The school complied—until last month’s homecoming parade, where it allowed chief-decorated floats. Since the NCAA’s ultimatum applied only to athletic events, the parade allowed the university to weasel its way out of the restriction. It is outrageous that Illinois is undercutting its official stance by trying to have it both ways. Racism cannot be compromised; it’s one or the other...