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...absence of co-captains junior Chris Clayton and senior Dan Nguyen due to illness. “It was a great and long day,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb said. “We were very good at taking the game to our opponents today, one through six, and as a coach that’s all you can ask for.” To counter the loss of the captains and preserve the players’ energy, the coaches shuffled the doubles partners for both matches—a tactic resulting in five wins...
...Crimson faced for the first time this season. For the women, the relay event ended well as captain Anna Schulz, sophomore Audrey Mangan and freshman Alyssa Devlin placed 13th among 20 teams, gaining 38 points. The dynamic trio’s combined time of 35:18.1 was only six seconds behind 12th place Colby College. Individually, these three earned their own successes in the 5K freestyle. Finishing 34th, Devlin was the Crimson’s top placer in the event, with Mangan a few seconds and two places behind. Schulz finished right after Mangan at the 37th position. The three...
...remaining, Columbia made three straight 3-pointers, sending the crowd into a frenzy. The Lions were 7-for-12 from behind the arc in the second half. A minute later, Columbia tied the game at 59. The Crimson, however, answered right back, scoring the next eight points—six of which were put in by Rollins. “We saw a different team in the second half and had to match their intensity,” Rollins said. In the final three minutes, the Lions were unable to get any closer than five. Senior co-captain Lindsay Hallion...
...favored opponent, Harvard used sophomore Doug Rogers’ first career hat trick to power to a 3-2 victory over No. 17 Princeton Friday night at Bright Hockey Center. After notching a goal and two assists in the Beanpot final, Rogers’s performance Friday gave him six points in two games. Solid puck movement from the first offensive line set up the sophomore’s second goal at 2:20 of the third period as co-captain Mike Taylor sent a cross from the left wing through the Tigers’ zone. Waiting by the weak...
...domineering “land” takes precedence over that of its people, and second, by the choice of Germanic word-collision over more harmonious Latinate diction such as “domestic.” And the effect does not seem to have diminished in the six years since Noonan’s column. For the listener able to ignore the term’s ubiquity, “Homeland Security” retains its sinister ring.What is more, the drive to recast our great nation as a “homeland” belittles America...