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...brought the highly coveted Beanpot trophy to Harvard. In the past two years, the defenseman's sterling play has been the main reason the Crimson has won consecutive Ivy League titles, has made two consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament and finally, finished as runners-up in the national tourney this year...
...second season when it battles Atlantic 10 champion Temple in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Northeast Regional at Orono, Maine. Harvard's 25-6-1 overall record and its 12th-ever Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title will count for nothing in the double-elimination tourney...
...Harvard NCAA tournament history has been so disappointing because the Crimson has never been seeded among the 16 teams invited to the tourney, and when the squad's card is drawn from the hat for pairings. Harvard invariably gets paired with a top team. This year the victory over Clemson, which would have heightened chances for a high ranking came too late, and the Crimson's early-season California jaunt didn't produce any upsets over top-ranked squads...
...dramatic 7-6 Minuteman tournament quarterfinal win came just after Harvard had erased a 4-1 halftime deficit and had masterfully taken a 6-5 lead with but seven minutes to play. But when the favored UMass squad, seeded fourth in the national tourney (the Crimson was not seeded), tied the score at 6-6 seconds later, it set the stage for some Minuteman heroics and some Crimson hysterics...
...instead, it will be UMass (now 12-1-1) which will make its first ever trip to the Final Four next weekend at the University of Pennsylvania With Saturday's quarterfinal win, UMass will join Temple, Penn State and Maryland, the tourney's top three seeds, in the showdown for the national title...