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...Division pack. With no team stepping up to challenge division-leading East Stroudsburg, the league standings are wide open, and the Crimson could make a run at a top finish. Harvard plays three games this coming week with the hopes of righting its recent skid and making a playoff push. “Oftentimes, a win or a string of wins can be the morale booster, the cure-all,” McKiernan said. “We’re at a turning point right now.” “I know we’re going...
...goal on the road against the Golden Knights and followed with a last-second score to earn the victory and home ice for the ECAC quarterfinals, Clarkson responded to another late Harvard equalizer with a sudden-death game-winner of its own to prevail, 2-1, and push the playoff series to a decisive third game. Katie Morrison put home a rebound past senior netminder Ali Boe with 29 seconds left in the first overtime period to ensure a rubber match and dash the hopes of a sweep by host Harvard. “It was good up-and-down...
...that, unfortunately in our league, requires guys to understand during the week that the team that wants this game is probably going to win,” Cornell coach Steve Donahue said. “Talent is thrown out the window. We’re not playing for a playoff, and for that I feel bad for all our guys. I felt Harvard allowed that to affect it tonight.” Cornell would shoot just 6-for-18 from behind the arc but the damage had already been done, as Harvard never pulled any closer than eight the rest...
...cleaning up the next night against the emotionally spent Bulldogs. Then, the same Penn team that had seemingly been scouting out first-round NCAA locations for about a month now would need to beat Princeton in Jadwin or else face the prospect of a neutral site do-or-die playoff game against a team that went 2-11 against non-conference competition.All of a sudden, the “seeding watches” that have dominated most of the banter involving bored Ivy basketball fans would be halted momentarily to watch the league teeter on the brink of the play...
...force in collegiate women’s hockey. This past weekend, Raimondi stepped up and proved how valuable she is to Harvard with a goal at the end of regulation and another one with one second remaining in overtime to earn the win against Clarkson and seal a home playoff series—Raimondi and her fellow seniors’ last games in Bright Hockey Center. “I’ve settled into a different style of play this season,” Raimondi says. “Everything is so close that nothing is absolutely handed...