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...Allard said in March. “This team, I feel, can handle it.” The strategy seemed to pay off at the final early season tournament, the Mercer Classic, where the Crimson went 3-1 and finished second to the host Bears. After a challenging preseason, the squad stumbled a bit in the first Ivy weekend. Harvard dropped two heartbreaking games to Princeton, 5-4 and 3-2. “We have been trying to work on our timely hitting. If we’d had more timely hits, we would have won the game...
...ECAC. Four team titles. Records dropping left and right. Three All-Americans. Eight weeks atop the national polls. An appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four.Not bad for a team with a No. 6 preseason ranking.For the Harvard women’s hockey team, the secret to success was simple—team comes first.“We had talented players, there’s no doubt about that, but we’re not superstars,” tri-captain Caitlin Cahow said. “We depend on teamwork. We don’t win any games without...
...Harvard once again collapsed under pressure, falling 3-2 to the Blue Devils. The loss was emblematic of a season that had so much promise. A team with a dizzying array of weapons—including two All-Americans—succumbed to the pressures of fulfilling its preseason hype. Relative to its history, 2007 was a remarkable year for Harvard. Dynasties, however, are measured not in relativity, but in absolute success. For the Crimson squad, there’s still a lot left to prove.—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...most everyone.” At the start of the spring season, Harvard demonstrated that it had the potential to do some damage in the Ivies when it nearly knocked off No. 57 Southern Methodist University in a 4-3 loss at home. But over the course of the preseason, injuries and illness broke up the starting lineup and prevented the Crimson from competing at the top of its game. The squad dropped close matches to Wisconsin and Boston University and suffered convincing losses to seven ranked opponents. “It can be easy to slip into feeling that...
...good one for the team and we were very close in a lot of matches” Ko said.Harvard faced a terrifying schedule this year and it dropped nine matches to ranked teams before the Ivy League schedule started. Sickness and injury also plagued the Crimson during the preseason and throughout league play.“With the circumstances and injures I think we did a very good job of hanging together throughout the whole season,” Green said.Next year Harvard will look to rebound and fight for an Ancient Eight Championship. Though the squad will graduate starters...