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...locker room aggressively, jumping to a 6-3 lead. Princeton was able to mount a comeback to tie it up at 9-9. The Tigers then took control of the game, posting five-straight points to make it 14-9. Harvard trailed the Tigers for the rest of the stanza, but consecutive kills brought the Crimson within two at 19-17. The Tigers were able to hold on to the set, winning it 30-22. “We trailed them for most of the match, but we were always close,” junior Soren Rosier said...
...fair sky, girls / of gentle birth sheathed in goatskin and tulle.” The latter image is one of several in this collection that allude to our distant, primeval past. Yet these distinctive images are lost by dilution, by the worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty”: “Inside, tiny sparkling / mineral, gypsum flowers, / lettuce and coral, shy trident / bats, fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied...
While neither Harvard nor UNH managed to score in the third period, the Crimson controlled the pace of the game in the final stanza of regulation and continued its dominance of the puck in overtime...
...that dictates the outcome of the game.” Penn went on an 8-4 run over the next three minutes to pull within 26-24. The Crimson responded by finishing the half with a 6-0 run to take a 34-26 lead going into the second stanza. After the first half, both teams were evenly matched on the stat sheet, but the Crimson outshot the Quakers 50 to 20 percent from beyond the arc and 78-40 percent from the free throw line. “We weathered their scoring runs well,” Delaney-Smith...
...Niki Finelli said. “I think when our focus shifted to defense, our offense followed, and that is what allowed us to get out in front in overtime.” The Crimson entered overtime play with grim determination. It scored the first seven points of the stanza to pull ahead, 76-74. The Huskies refused to lay down without a fight, and promptly dropped a three-pointer with only three minutes left on the clock to bring them within two possessions of a win, 74-70. Then with less than 50 seconds left, freshman Brogan Berry...