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...PENN The score Yale 16, Penn 1 was about as much a surprise as the absolute beating the Quakers handed out down the stretch in The Palestra. 2. CORNELL The Big Red pulled off the home sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth and finds itself right back in the midst of the title hunt. 3. HARVARD Two tough early season road losses make a home sweep of Penn and Princeton this weekend a must, if the Crimson wants to stay in the race. 4. PRINCETON The Tigers might be 3-1 in league play, but remember that this is still...
...into the game with a meager .172 conversion percentage and that went 0-for-7 on the night. Fortunately for Harvard, its strategy of launching volley after volley at the resilient D’Alba eventually paid off when Murphy put away his own rebound to secure the season sweep for the Crimson. “After the first [period], we threw a lot of pucks on net,” Murphy said. “Sooner or later, one of them was going to get through him.” —Staff writer Karan Lodha...
...crime like that, something’s up.” Harvard must quickly overcome the bitterness of Saturday’s wrenching defeat if it wants to salvage its season. Next weekend, perennial Ivy League powerhouses Princeton and Penn enter Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson will likely have to sweep both games from their rivals to stay in contention with Penn, which has yet to lose in league play. “We can go one of two ways,” Beal said. “Either we’re going to pull together...
...while the women’s top performer, sophomore Lindsey Scherf, went to Notre Dame to compete with some of the nation’s best. For the men, senior James Rhodes and junior Peter Mullen were the only two athletes to win their events. The former led a sweep of the top three spots in the weight throw with a toss of 16.00 meters, while the latter won the 3000 meter run with a time of 8:51.34. The other bright spots during the day were sophomore Alex Lewis’ second-place finish in the long jump...
...court heave from junior guard Ko Yada. As the shot fell harmlessly short and the final buzzer sounded, a group of jubilant Cornell fans rushed the court to congratulate Collins and his teammates. The stunning turnaround prevented the Crimson (12-7, 4-2) from accomplishing its first road sweep since 2000, and dealt a devastating blow to the team’s chances of catching unbeaten Penn for the Ivy League title.“It actually is probably the toughest [loss] of my career, especially with the significance of it,” senior forward Mike Beal said...