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...squad with 1,408.5 points, and Yale secured third with 1,122 points. Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell rounded out the rest of the Ancient Eight.The Tigers had won five straight Ivy Championships when the Crimson stole the title in 2005. Last year, Princeton pulled off an upset of Harvard to return to the top of the League and cemented its stature this year.The Tigers led at the end of all three days but the Crimson used every swimmer on its championship roster to inch closer throughout the competition.“At our dual meets during the year...
...take it.”Brine’s 23rd score of the season—her eighth game-winning goal—capped a dramatic comeback for the Crimson, which was forced to notch three goals in the final period of regulation to avoid the upset loss.In all, the team scored four times in a 20-minute, 10-second span. “We got a little careless in the second period and dug ourselves a hole,” Stone said. “And fortunately we were able to come out of it. [We showed...
...Harvard women’s squash team scored an upset win over the Quakers in the semifinals of the Howe Cup Saturday afternoon to avenge a loss two weeks prior, yet couldn’t pull the same trick again on Sunday, falling to Princeton for the second time this month in the national championship...
...Mission, Kans. The hard-nosed slugger won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for heroism during World War II. As a player, he set a Series record by hitting safely in 17 consecutive games. He later managed the Baltimore Orioles to their first Series title, in a memorable upset over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966. The two-time American League manager of the year said, "It's no fun playing if you don't make somebody else unhappy. I do everything hard...
...world.”The team assembles in Grand Forks, Mich. for a pre-World Championships training camp on March 21, wrapping up on April 1 with the second of two scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars...