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...growing pains are part of maturing, the Crimson has certainly paid its dues.The Harvard men’s water polo team continued its brutal schedule this past weekend with a west coast trip to the Claremont Convergence, a California tournament that pitted the ECAC competitors against some of the top talent in the nation. The Crimson (2-7, 1-1 CWPA) suffered consecutive drubbings by No. 4 Pepperdine and No. 6 Loyola Marymount on Friday night and Saturday morning. But, disheartening results aside, Harvard seems fully aware of the benefit of facing such high-level opposition.“Obviously...
...have his best game the next couple rounds, he held it together with good putting,” Mayer said. Yesterday’s final round was Harvard’s biggest challenge. Teeing off at intervals between seven a.m. and nine a.m. after playing 36 tournament holes the day before, players were soon soaked by a deluge that eventually delayed play and then amped up the difficulty of the already arduous Yale course once play resumed. Scores from day three, in some cases, were swollen by the wet weather. “For the first hour, we were playing...
...tournament, featuring the top 80 players in the country, began poorly for Ko, yet she managed to rebound in the back draw before withdrawing due to injury...
...good tournament. All the good players play at the All-American,” Ko said. “I wish it would have gone a little better, but it still was a good experience...
Then came the highlight of Ko’s tournament, a hard-fought match against Boise State qualifier Pichitta Thongdach. The Crimson player emerged victorious in the end by a score of 6-1, 7-6 (5). Thongdach had in the first round defeated a good friend of Ko’s, Monica Dancevic of Georgia, so Ko knew what was coming and took advantage of it to jump out to an early lead...