Word: tournaments
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...women's hockey team captures the Ivy League tournament (again, for the second straight year) with a 4-3 victory over Princeton. The Crimson's comment: "The Harvard women's hockey team is very good at repeating things...
March 5, 1988: The men's hockey team gets past RPI in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament with a 6-4 victory in the second game of the series. Andy Janfaza skips a shot off RPI defenseman Rob Schena's leg and into the net. A favorite expression of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary comes to mind: "I'd rather be lucky than good...
March 12, 1988: The icemen turn the consolation game against Vermont into a scoring fest. Harvard captures a 7-1 victory and earns a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson writes, "It was the kind of game Harvard Coach Bill Cleary could wrap up and stuff in a capsule." If only he had the wrapping paper...
...women's lacrosse team meets top-ranked Temple in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. Earlier in the year, the Owls had hooted past the Crimson, 13-8. They do it again, by the same score. The Crimson writes: "Losing is never easy to bear, but when you lose to the best team in the nation, it takes some of the sting out of it." Temple goes on to win the national championship...
...Midshipmen are in tip-top shape. They beat the men's lacrosse team, 10-9, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Middies go on to get crushed by Syracuse, 23-9 in the Carrier Dome...