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...last championship of the season. The Crimson couldn’t defend its Ivy League title successfully this year, ceding the crown to Columbia. Harvard began its Ivy League campaign against the eventual champions and lost, 4-3. It was the first loss for the Crimson in Ivy League play in two seasons. “I think it was fair to say that this year was disappointing because the team had done a great job improving,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “We had every reason to think that...
...scoring average per round has been getting lower ever since I came to Harvard,” Sheldon said. “However, we did not have as many remarkable rounds as we did a year ago. If we are able to combine our consistent play from this year with some extraordinary rounds here and there, we should be able to improve our finishes in a national tournament.” Senior Emily Balmert, Harvard’s first individual Ivy League champion in program history in 2006 and the first women’s golfer and second Crimson golfer...
...that rainy September afternoon, the goal of repeating as Ivy League champions suddenly seemed a lot harder to attain.Though Harvard jumped out to an early lead, a missed extra point and three fumbles put the Crimson in a 24-16 hole in the fourth.With a minute left to play, Harvard looked to have seized the momentum. Backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan found junior Matt Luft in the endzone to pull the Crimson within two points of the Bears.But Harvard was stopped short on its two-point conversion attempt, letting Brown walk away with...
Although the Harvard women’s water polo team played only six games at home this season, it is fair to say that those six games were the defining points of the year. Clear-cut victories, comebacks that fell short, strong freshman play and intra-league troubles characteristic of the 2009 campaign all occurred within the confines of Blodgett Pool through the course of six games. The Crimson witnessed a slight decline this season as compared to last year, putting forth a 10-14 record after breaking even at 12-12 in 2008. Despite the slight difference in records...
...captain Bailey Vertovez said. “But that being said, it was great to be in it until the last game.”Harvard opened the season with a win for the first time in five years, and followed up tournament play in Kansas with tournament victories in Boca Raton and Radford. In the last contest, the Crimson edged out the Highlanders, who were recently ousted in the 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...