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...lowdown on the horses we’re playing,” Crocker says. He’s gathered the team into a room before the game against UConn, and his plan is simple: Botero and Scalise would run off the men to keep Nick free to drive the ball...
...first chukker, the power play between Nick and Charlie Hutchinson, UConn’s leading player, makes immediately clear that the two teams are closely matched; the seven-and-a-half minutes end with UConn in a one-goal lead. But in the second chukker, Harvard loses its close follow, racking up multiple crossing violations and missing several foul shots. By the chukker’s end, Harvard is four goals behind UConn—not a good place for a team that had seen itself at least on par with UConn in previous games...
...struggles under the concentrated pressure of the entire UConn team. Shouts of “Nick is coming!” ring from the UConn players, who ride their horses into Nick’s side, pushing and elbowing—an illegal move—to drive him off the line of the ball. Early in the third chukker, Hutchinson wildly flails his horse at Nick’s to ride him off, unsteadying his opponent. With a graceful tumble off the side of his horse, Nick lands with a powdery thud. The umpires call a simple penalty against...
...Without a doubt, Nick promptly remounts his horse and scores five goals in the span of time UConn scores one. With two minutes left in the third chukker, Harvard is now only two goals behind UConn’s thirteen...
...Another simple violation is called against UConn, but growing discontent stirs within the Harvard team: a harsher penalty should probably have been called, one where Harvard could have received an automatic free goal. In the end, UConn wins, 20 to 15. Harvard will not be going to Nationals...