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Ironically, the most prominent of the senior pitchers is a walk-on. Barry Wahlberg, a former Crimson quarterback, is now the team’s captain and closer. Wahlberg emerged as the team’s stopper during its title run last season, and the same production is expected of him this season...
...league season, whose back-to-back doubleheader format subjects Ivy pitching staffs to a mean sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar to this weekend’s. Once he cracked the rotation, he never left, surviving all the way to the title-clinching victory in last May’s Ivy championship series against Princeton...
...game was a gem. It had great offense, great defense, great goaltending and great individual efforts (Moore’s pocket-pick of Cornell defenseman Mark McRae and his goal seconds later come to mind). It also had a hero—Big Red forward Sam Paolini, the former walk-on who scored the overtime game-winner...
...former Marine, Turner played fullback at Boston College, where he remains the only walk-on captain in the history of the Eagles’ football program. Prior to Harvard, he also coached at Northeastern and Division I-A Louisiana Tech as an offensive line assistant...
...reality, knocking him out of the game with four first-period goals. Silverthorn seemed to be rattled by a cheap first goal, which bounced in off a sliding Tim Pettit. The Crimson took a little longer to chase backup David Cann, but he was ultimately pulled for freshman walk-on Scott Annan, who saw his first-ever action. Annan had the best success of any Red Raider goalie, stopping the only shot he faced...