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With a depleted pitching staff and injuries to key players, Harvard faced an uphill battle in 2009, especially after a grueling spring break trip down south that pitted the Crimson against some of the top teams in the nation. After losing 16 of its first 18 games, including the first two of the Ivy League season to Columbia, Harvard easily could have resigned itself to a lost season. But Douglas’ leadership set an example that the rest of the squad could not ignore...
When Douglas was in high school, Harvard coach Joe Walsh had no intentions of making a hard recruiting push for the South River, N.J. native. But Mike Garlatti, an old acquaintance of Walsh’s and a scout for the Colorado Rockies, had coached Douglas on a fall-season team for high schoolers looking to play at the college level and recommended him to the Crimson skipper...
...Harvard’s archrival in women’s water polo is Brown, and the Crimson had fallen to its neighbors from the south the first three times they had met that season. But none of those games were as important as this one, taking place at the semifinals of the College Water Polo Association Northern Division Championships in Harvard’s own pool. The Crimson had to win to guarantee itself a spot at the Eastern Championships the next week, and if tensions were not high enough, Harvard had to live down losing its previous three meetings...
...minutes in the 1-0 loss to Dartmouth? What if the Crimson had capitalized on one of its many chances in a game that it dominated against Penn, instead of going down, 1-0, in overtime? What if Harvard had avoided the two mental lapses that led to two South Florida goals in a 2-1 loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament?“Overall, it was a great season,” Fucito said. “But unfortunately a few key moments overshadowed the good and made it disappointing.”Still...
...have struggled to stabilize prices at a level that suits their own economic needs amid falling demand and rising supplies. Prices had rocketed to a record level of $147 a barrel last July before plummeting to $30 just five months later and beginning a new climb. (See pictures of South Africa's oil-from-coal refinery...