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...February, the Crimson also fared well at the ECAC Men’s Indoor Tennis Championships, a tournament that featured fellow Ivy League opponents as well as St. John’s and Boston College. After easily disposing of the Red Storm, 4-0, Harvard faced tough opposition in Penn. Chijoff-Evans captured the winning point for Harvard in an exciting matchup against the Quakers’ Hicham Laalej. After dropping the first set, Chijoff-Evans won the second in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (10-8). The sophomore showed that he wasn’t ready to give...
...finish the season. The Crimson’s experienced starters led the team to close wins over Lehigh and Princeton, while its depth of talent proved crucial to keep pace in the Ancient Eight.The season’s penultimate game pitted Harvard against another one-loss squad in Penn. After jumping out to a 17-0 third-quarter lead, the Crimson let the Quakers back in, and the lead narrowed to 24-21 with less than five minutes to play.Penn was threatening at the Harvard 12-yard line with 20 seconds on the clock when senior Ryan Barnes pulled down...
...underdogs, so Rochester thought they could beat us, but those three guys just put it out of their minds.” The rest of the regular season consisted of two defeats by No. 1 Trinity and No. 2 Princeton. Harvard managed a close 5-4 win against Penn, but a tough 5-4 loss to Yale brought the team down a spot in the national poll. Going into the College Squash Association tournament, the main goal was to finish the year on a strong note, especially for the outgoing seniors. “There was a very strong senior...
...first round of the 2009 NCAA tournament, 3-2, to nab the title.But Harvard couldn’t maintain its preseason momentum, as the team split with perennial basement-dweller Columbia in its Ivy opener. Though the Crimson bounced back with back-to-back doubleheader wins against Penn and Rhode Island the next week, the team struggled to maintain consistency as the regular season wore on. “In general, it’s great to see that we were able to beat every team in the league at least once,” Vertovez said...
After a pair of draws on the road against then-No. 12 Boston College and Fairfield, a loss would yet again threaten to derail the team’s season. Defending Ivy champion Penn drilled visiting Harvard in a crippling two-goal shutout on Sept. 27, but the Crimson refused to fold...