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...don’t know if we could have gotten any worse,” coach Kathy Delaney Smith said if the first matchup between the two teams. “We just weren’t playing well. But all in all, it was a great wakeup call, not a bad loss.”In addition to establishing a lead early, stopping Dartmouth guards Koren Schram and Kristen Craft was a priority for Harvard. In the Big Green win, Schram and Craft chipped in with timely shots from long range whenever the Crimson seemed to be gaining momentum...
Ohio State was the first team to tee off against Harvard, and it gave the Crimson—especially the defense—a wakeup call. Sophomore Joe Pike returned to the goal after posting an impressive freshman season splitting his time with Evan O’Donnell. His role on a young and depleted ‘D’ loaded with question marks was just about the only secure one before the season’s start...
...Losing down there pretty handily was a kick in the butt and a wakeup call that forced us to rethink our approach and everything we’re about,” captain Charles Altchek said. “When it was over, we all got together and really buckled down as a team knowing full well that if we lost to Yale the next weekend, or even if we tied, it was probably the end of our Ivy League title hopes...
...Some good may yet come of this fiasco for Israel's military - also harshly criticized in the report - for which last summer's war was a wakeup call. For the past quarter century, the Israeli Defense Force has been largely engaged in occupation missions, and its war-fighting capacity has eroded. The country's top brass is hard at work on learning the lessons of what Israel calls "The Second Lebanon War," in the expectation that there may be a third as early as this summer...
...past Crimson junior goalkeeper Adam Hahn, giving UCLA an early 1-0 lead. “It’s not ideal to give up a goal in the first two minutes,” Hahn said. “I think it was a little bit of a wakeup call—after that we started taking it to them a little more.”Zizzo’s speed on the right side plagued Harvard’s defense all night, which surrendered two more goals—including Zizzo’s second at 39:30?...