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...five years—the first time in the series’ history that they had done so on the Charles River. This weekend, however, on a day of smooth waters and light winds on Lake Carnegie, N.J., Harvard won all four races of the morning in a clean sweep over the Princeton and MIT boats...
PROVIDENCE—The Harvard baseball team split its second doubleheader of the weekend yesterday against Brown to remain tied with the Bears atop the Red Rolfe Division of the Ivy League.A sweep of the second half of the four-game weekend series would have given the Crimson (14-15, 9-5 Ivy) sole possession of first place and the inside track at a spot in the Ivy Championship Series. Instead, Harvard dropped the first game, 5-2, before recovering in the second to leave Providence at .500 for the weekend. Harvard will now have to hope that Brown...
...doubles point. The length of the rallies on the No. 2 court meant that Harvard’s top pair, junior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Sasha Ermakov, finished its 8-5 victory before Hayes and Valkin despite the smaller differential.Juniors Kieran Burke and Dan Nguyen completed the doubles sweep, winning in a tiebreak at No. 3, 8-7(3).“We lost the doubles point last year,” Clayton said. “So, this year, we wanted to come out and take the doubles point to give us a little bit of a head start...
...stake.“We knew we needed to come and win all four games to set ourselves up for next weekend,” freshman pitcher Dana Roberts said.HARVARD 6, BROWN 1Freshman Jennifer Francis hit the first two home runs of her collegiate career as Harvard completed the sweep on Senior Day.Francis, pinch-hitting for freshman designated hitter Lauren Murphy in the fifth, hit a solo shot to center and added another to left in her next at-bat. Senior Susie Winkeller hit a solo home run of her own in the fifth, her fourth of the year.The pitching...
...third game of the series.“We only got her one run, but that was all she needed,” said captain and second baseman Julia Kidder.HARVARD 5, YALE 2A four-run first was more than enough for the Crimson, as it completed the doubleheader sweep of Yale on Friday by winning the nightcap, 5-2. Harvard got four runs in the first frame with just two hits, thanks to three Bulldog errors. The first two batters of the game, senior shortstop Lauren Brown and freshman centerfielder Stephanie Krysiak, each reached on errors. Kidder sacrificed them over...