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...itself as the Ivies’ team to beat, rounding into form as the calendar turned to April and the opponents became familiar. Harvard easily dispatched the very same Tigers in its league opener, dominating a twinbill with 4-1 and 8-2 wins, and trounced Cornell in a pair the following afternoon. The impressive 4-0 start exhibited the potential of the pitching staff and the predicted firepower at the top of the batting order, and erased the doubts generated through two tentative non-conference southern swings, including a three-game sweep at the hands of SEC powerhouse Florida...
...many years where we weren’t in the title hunt. It’s very odd to me. We’ve never been out of it this early, and it makes me hungrier for next year.” Two crushing defeats to Brown and a pair of slow starts against Princeton left the Crimson on the outside looking in when Dartmouth and the Tigers squared off for the Ivy League crown in March. The combination of slow starts and game-long offensive inconsistency made for a frustrating Ivy run for a team accustomed to playing...
...first Ivy title and first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1946. Those dreams, however, faded into bitter memory with an eight-game league losing streak late in the season that transformed Harvard from title challengers into a team struggling to avoid the Ivy basement. After a pair of emotionally jarring last-minute defeats, Harvard fell into a tailspin, losing its shot at history along with the chance for its first winning record in four years. The Crimson finished the season at 13-14 overall and sixth in the Ivy League with a 5-9 mark, seven games behind champion...
...league struggles continued in January during a home-and-home set with Rensselaer and Union.The Crimson picked up only three points in the standings, earning a tie in Schenectady and a win against the Engineers at home but losing the other two contests.Harvard finally turned things around with a pair of overtime wins against Brown and Princeton.But in order to clinch a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson needed to play exceptionally well over a nine-day period against the top four teams in the conference.Facing an uphill battle, Harvard delivered. Though the Crimson dropped the first...
...team quickly recovered. Freshman Michael Shore took to the course after Freshman Week and placed third in his second tournament, while classmates John Christensen and Josh Isner played well throughout the fall. Senior D.J. Hynes recovered splendidly from his knee injury, finishing eighth and 11th in a pair of the fall tournaments. The team practiced inside the Murr Center through the cold New England winter on a new 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...