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...industrial stretch of flatlands east of Pisa, Cascina is hardly the postcard Italy of undulating olive groves. With an auto-parts store behind the cemetery and the stripped face of a gravel mine in the distance, the burial service last week somehow seemed more Texan than Tuscan. Summers was wearing a pink Wrangler cowboy shirt and black pants inside the closed white coffin now pulled beside the back of the black Mercedes hearse...
...Brand said. “They are going to get a dose of what I call reality, but they’re prepared for it. They know that when they come back they are going to be working extra hard to get ready for the long stretch in February when we have our toughest competition coming up.” —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard’s victory was keyed by a crucial stretch of strong defense early in the second half. LIU erased a 44-39 halftime deficit with a quick 8-3 run to open the period, getting a pair of hook shots from forward Kellen Allen and then tying the game on guard Tyrone Mattison’s steal and breakaway layup, but the Crimson quickly returned the favor...
...Crimson held on down the stretch by hitting 16-of-21 second-half free throws, while LIU went just 6-of-11 from the stripe after the break. That disparity was nothing new for Harvard, which entered the game having attempted over a hundred more free throws than its opponents with a better conversion rate...
...Saturday, the Crimson completed its most grueling stretch of the season so far, five games in nine days against a quartet of tough non-conference opponents. Two games against three-time national champ Minnesota-Duluth, a stiff midweek test against first-place UConn, and then home clashes versus the Wildcats and Providence this weekend all featured the kind of fast-paced, high-impact action that now prevails among the top teams in women’s hockey...