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...wants to win close games, though, it will have to find its groove earlier: trouble scoring in the first half buried Harvard on Friday and nearly did so again yesterday. Facing a double-digit halftime deficit Friday evening against Loyola (1-1) in the tourney’s first round, the Crimson chipped away throughout the second half but eventually fell 78-69. It took a 44-point second half explosion for the Crimson to put away Central Connecticut State (0-2), 70-63, in the consolation game yesterday. “Our start both games was extremely disappointing...
...going to blame injuries. But losses sustained both before and during the game might have hurt the Crimson down the stretch.Co-captain Nikki Rhodes, who had appeared in every game in 2008 and started about half of them, sat out all 110 minutes on Friday night. But in the round of penalty kicks, Leone brought Rhodes in for a cameo on Harvard’s first shot.Rhodes seemed to have no trouble completing the kick, but Northeastern keeper Stephanie Gordon guessed correctly and made a leaping save to give her Huskies an early advantage.No less significant than Rhodes?...
After 110 minutes of play, the result of Harvard and Northeastern’s epic first round NCAA tournament clash remained in doubt.Tied at 2-2, the teams moved to penalty kicks.After thrilling saves from both Crimson junior keeper Lauren Mann and Huskie freshman net minder Stephanie Gordon, the score, in penalty kicks, was tied once again, 2-2.The fates of two teams hung in the balance. One was moving on to face No.10 Boston College in the second round. The other was going home.Unfortunately for the Harvard faithful packing the stands, it was not the Crimson’s night.Northeastern...
...Harvard’s president.The National Organization for Women and other women’s groups have issued sharply-worded statements opposing Summers’ potential appointment that may have succeeded in knocking him off Obama’s short list, according to The Politico, a Capital Hill newspaper.This round of Summers backlash has focused on his comments at a 2005 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in which he suggested that “intrinsic” physiological differences between men and women may in part account for the relative lack of women in top science...
Despite Sunday’s 1-0 loss to Penn, the Crimson will take the field Saturday at noon in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against the University of Massachusetts...