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...NCAA Tournament. Despite not having her best stuff, the junior pitched every inning for Harvard, allowing just four runs over 15 innings against conference champions Hofstra and Albany. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to win, as the Crimson lost a pair of one-run games. Yet the playoff performance couldn’t tarnish an incredibly successful season for the Crimson’s star pitcher. Besides the intense summer rehab, several other factors contributed to her success on the mound, starting with the team defense. “I think [the] defense was instrumental...
There were certainly flashes of dominance. A 4-0 shutout of powerhouse Boston College. A stirring takedown of then-ECAC leader Quinnipiac. A redemptive come-from-behind victory in the ECAC playoff opener against Yale.But in the end, the 2007 edition of the Harvard men’s hockey team failed to live up to the lofty standards set by its predecessors, bowing out in the second round of the ECAC playoffs and missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2000-01 season.“It was incredibly disappointing,” senior Kevin Du said...
...Brown in the penultimate Ivy weekend, Harvard had to take all four from perennial contender Dartmouth and hope that Yale could sweep the Bears. Neither deal worked out, and as the sun finally came out in May, the Crimson found itself inside yet again—this time, watching playoff baseball unfold without it.“It’s not just about being able to say that you’re the Ivy League champion—it’s the ability to extend your season one month more,” Walsh said...
...double-elimination format, with the winners and losers of the Harvard-Hofstra and Baylor-Albany games playing each other Saturday. The winners of each regional advance to the Super Regionals, which will be played the following weekend. The Crimson, which won the Ivy League with a two-game playoff sweep of Penn two weekends ago, faces an uphill battle to advance to the next round. The Pride (40-13) won the Colonial Athletic Association championship and is making its 10th straight tourney appearance. The Bears are traveling to Hempstead despite a 45-13 record and No. 8 national ranking, which...
...conference has some bizarre rules when it comes to sports. The anti-playoff football regulation comes to mind, as does the lack of athletic scholarships that plagues every one of the Crimson’s Division I programs...