Word: senior
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...tournament final, Acosta, a senior, fell to Pat Keefe of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Keefe, a former National Juniors Champion, came from behind to gain a 21-14 victory in the first game of the match--the Harvard star's first loss of the tournament...
...Senior Steve Andrews' Harvard hockey career ended Saturday night with the team's 6-5 loss to Yale. Andrews scored a goal and an assist. Andrews never was a star for Harvard and received no glorious accolades but from 1976-79 he played in 44 varsity games, scored five goals and 12 assists for 17 points, earned two Major-H letters, and garnered the respect of his coaches, teammates, and fans as a dedicated, hard-working, position player...
Andrews played prep school hockey at Hotchkiss. A varsity player his junior and senior years, Andrews did not anticipate playing Division One Hockey. "I wanted to play hockey in college, I wanted to be involved in a program, but I thought I'd be lucky if I had a chance to play varsity my senior year. I wasn't recruited anywhere and when I came to Harvard neither Timmy Taylor (formerly J.V. coach at Harvard and now head coach at Yale) nor Billy Cleary knew I played hockey," Andrews said in an interview last week...
Inspired and optimistic for his senior year, the Andover, Mass. native encountered yet another surprise this past fall. Between the time coach Cleary made cuts in early November and the first game of the season at Dartmouth, Nov. 21, 1978, Andrews slipped from third line center to the fifth line. The fifth unit of the varsity plays in J.V. games, only practicing with the top squad...
...upset as I've ever been, because this was my senior year. I had a lot of confidence built up in myself after my junior season. I came back to school in great shape, had a great tryout and had visions of playing second or third line. When I found out I was cut it was tough," Andrews recalled...