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...second. “I think part of our problem [was] that we were fixing too much on Princeton...we see them a lot and we tend to fixate on them a little bit,” junior Rachel Orler said. “IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beaten Georgetown in the past.” “It was disappointing to have a third-place finish to cap it off, but there were definitely some high points to the season,” senior Sarah Bates added. Despite...
...with them. “This year, Georgetown has risen up as a powerful crew, and we’ve had some tight races with them as well, ending with a loss to them at the IRAs.” “Actually, IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beatenGeorgetown in the past,” junior Rachel Orler said. Wisconsin started in a worse position than the Black and White when the Badgers finished third in the opening heat and had to go through another qualifying round—which...
...singles matches, however, Harvard could never get it going against Cornell. The only Crimson victory came from Nguyen at the sixth position. Kumar, Clayton and Ermakov all lost in three sets, and Chu and sophomore Brian Wan were defeated in two. “It was a total shocker,” Kumar said. “Collectively, it was the worst singles performance we’ve had all season. With our depth, we usually find a way to win three out of six. But I give them credit. They played fearlessly [while] we waited for them to give...
...much for streaks. It took half a decade, but the Harvard varsity heavyweights finally had a bad day. And after five years of perfection, the Crimson came up five tenths of a second short. Harvard dropped its season opener in a shocker at Brown on Saturday, losing by one seat in the furious sprint to the finish. It marked the first time since an April 2001 loss to Princeton that Harvard has surrendered a dual race. The win gave No. 7 Brown its first Stein Cup victory since 2000 and sent the No. 3 Crimson to an unfamiliar...
...final, with Botterill tallying two assists and Vaillancourt adding a helper. Then there was rising junior Caitlin Cahow, seeming downcast as she and her American teammates picked up their bronze medals, a disappointment for a unit that had golden aspirations. On Friday, the Americans fell in a semifinal shocker to Sweden, 3-2, in a shootout. The result, which will have long-term reverberations in women’s hockey, was surely the sport’s biggest upset ever on the international stage. Since 1990 and the inception of the world championships, the United States and Canada had lost...