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...choice to end the eighth inning. The bottom of the tenth, though, saw the Northeastern captain put just enough bat on the ball to win it.“Tamsin was the best hitter in New England this year, and, well, Lyon might just be the second-best,” Walsh said.Harvard looked to be in the driver’s seat early, taking advantage of timely hits and Northeastern miscues to jump out to a quick lead. An RBI single up the middle from captain Matt Vance got the Crimson on the board in the first, and after...
...always mean losing. The Harvard fencing team finished sixth at the NCAA Championships for the second year in a row, capping a successful season for the squad. The year-end tournament was held this past weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Senior Teddy Sherrill was among four All-Americans for the Crimson and led the team with a fifth-place finish in epee. Entering the season without some key fencers, the Crimson nevertheless relied on veteran leaders and some youthful infusion to tie for the second-best finish in school history. Mathematically, the chances of recapturing the title, which Harvard...
...added.Clarkson got two quality scoring chances in the second period. The first came on the power play, when Ryabkina was called for her second penalty of the game.Crimson netminder Christina Kessler dropped her stick on the play and had to survive over a minute of the penalty kill with Vaillancourt’s smaller stick as a substitute. Despite the disadvantage, Harvard stopped the threat without much trouble. The nation’s second-best penalty-kill unit held the Golden Knights scoreless in their five power-play chances.Clarkson also had a major opportunity midway through the second frame, when...
...first power play, the Crimson came out with the 5-on-4 advantage to begin the second period. Just 25 seconds into the period, junior Sarah Vaillancourt fed the puck to Cahow, who was waiting at the right post. Cahow lifted it over Terrier goalie Allyse Wilcox for her nation-leading tenth power-play goal of the season.Junior Jenny Brine also recorded an assist on the play, which was also the 34th goal scored by the country’s second-best power play unit. “We got great looks at the net, great opportunities...
...Harvard misses out on its first power play shot of the game. The Crimson came into this one with the second-best power play unit in the nation...