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After a tough start to its season, the Harvard men’s water polo team improved down the stretch and reached the Eastern Championships for the second straight year. Under the guidance of second-year coach Erik Farrar, and led by junior co-captain Michael Garcia, the Crimson won its final three regular season games to finish the season with an 8-11 record and a 5-4 mark in the CWPA Northern Division. At the Northern Championships, Harvard clinched a spot at Easterns by beating Iona 11-10 in double overtime in the third-place game. At Easterns...
...reality, for despite having both Stehle and Cusworth foul out in the game’s final minutes, the Crimson fought to a three point lead with under a minute left. But Cornell captain Lenny Collins kept his team alive by scoring eight straight Big Red points down the stretch, including an off-balance three pointer that tied the score at 77. Harvard couldn’t answer, and a put-back from forward Jason Hartford with a second left gave Cornell the 79-77 victory. The Crimson appeared to have sloughed off the effects of the bad trip...
...NCAA tournament] was unbelievable for us.”The Crimson kicked off its season in nerve-wracking fashion. After going 2-1 through its first three games, Harvard played four straight games in which its opponent staged a third-period comeback.Though Cornell was the only team in that stretch that managed to steal a win, the Crimson’s inexperience showed.Harvard especially struggled in its league contests during the period from Thanksgiving weekend through winter break.The Crimson pulled out one-goal victories at St. Lawrence and against Quinnipiac but dropped three other Ivy games, including...
...flawless game; we really earned that win. It’s one of the games I will enjoy looking back on.” In the second game of the doubleheader, freshman Bailey Vertovez and sophomore Amanda Watkins allowed only one run each, continuing the stretch of near-perfect Crimson pitching. Princeton, however, was able to notch a 2-0 win. After Cornell swept the team on the first day of Ivy play, Harvard fought back for two victories against Columbia the following day. The Crimson maintained an even record in the Ivy League splitting twinbills with Brown and Yale...
After an up-and-down beginning of the season, the Harvard women’s water polo team turned it on down the stretch. Shaking off three early losses to rival Brown, the Crimson beat the Bears, 6-5, on April 23 at the Northern Championships, clinching a berth at the year-end Eastern Championships. At Easterns, Harvard battled against higher-ranked seeds Indiana and Maryland before losing in the fourth quarter, 7-6 and 4-3, respectively, to finish No. 8 among the eight schools in the tournament. “Those were the toughest eight teams I have...