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...rarely seen in previous years.“He’s always been one of the nation’s best goalkeepers,” Farrar said. “As our last line of defense, it’s good to have someone like that in the net.” Connolly, who had 15 saves in the victory over Johns Hopkins, racked up 312 saves for the season—nearly doubling his count of 164 last year—and boasted a .541 save percentage. Though Harvard lost its next two games at Easterns, the team...
...then-No. 2 St. Lawrence. It was at that point that sophomore goaltender Christina Kessler—who earned the starting job when junior Brittany Martin was slowed with a back injury—came into her own. Kessler recorded four shutouts in her first 10 games in net en route to an NCAA record 12-shutout season.Then on Dec. 14, just four days after reaching the top of the polls, Harvard fell to No. 2 New Hampshire in a 4-1 thumping.“We were sort of flat in the first two periods and came...
...them. Even with a conflict-of-interest policy that attempts to eliminate bias from our coverage, we cannot help but feel a certain empathy for the student-athletes we are so connected to.Despite the ease and comfort that our extraordinary access provides, perhaps it might seem to produce a net negative effect, coloring our coverage and complicating our personal interactions. Are college journalists incapable of unbiased, high-quality reporting? And when we see that athlete we just criticized in our last column, is there any way to avoid an awkward half-wave?On the whole, I think that Crimson reporters...
...goals per game. Sophomore Lizzy Nichols, an All-Ivy First Team pick, and Rhodes, an Honorable Mention selection, anchored the back line in front of the league’s top goalkeeper. Sophomore Lauren Mann, who picked up an All-Ivy Second Team nod for her work in net, led Ancient Eight keepers with nine shutouts. A set of three non-conference games against local opponents in early September provided an important foundation for the young team as it prepared for Ancient Eight play. In the space of a week, the Crimson fought to wins at Northeastern and home against...
...better every game,” Murphy said.Yale was the culmination of that improvement. The defense limited one of the top offensive attacks in the country to just 109 total yards—senior hurler Matt Polhemus was 2-of-18 for 29 yards, and McLeod had a net 50 yards on 20 carries. The offense had its most impressive performance of the 2007 campaign: Pizzotti posted a blistering 316 yards on 27-of-41 passing for four touchdowns, and the Harvard receivers manhandled Yale’s secondary with freshman Matt Luft posting eight catches for 160 yards...