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...defense was on. We were in our system and playing our game. The center had so many options that the block on the other side didn’t know where to go.”The strong defensive effort by Columbia, however, made the match a real back-and-forth battle, as the Crimson was forced to hit second and third shots.The Lions bested the Crimson in the first game, 30-25.The Crimson surged back in the second, however, hitting a strong .410 to take the game, 30-15.The third and fourth games were very competitive, as Harvard...
Like the overtime frames, much of the second half was characterized by a back-and-forth struggle that forced both teams to rely on their defenses to make big plays...
...Camden, Harvard opted not to settle, racing the whole 2,000 meters at an unfathomable 41 strokes per minute.At the halfway point, the Crimson stood dead even with Cornell. The boats exchanged inches in the last 1,000 meters, hurtling down the course in a back-and-forth slugfest made more dramatic by the alternating surge of each crew’s bow ball.Everyone expected No. 1 Cornell to be up front. But No. 5 Harvard? At a 41? By all counts, the Crimson should have been gassed by the final 500 meters. “Apparently, [heavyweight coach] Harry...
...season opening. For the second time in as many games, the Crimson (2-10, 2-2 Ivy) battled its way to an overtime win, this time overcoming Ivy rival Yale (3-8, 2-2 Ivy) in a 3-2 double-overtime contest.After eight minutes of back-and-forth double-overtime play, Harvard’s unrelenting offense penetrated the Bulldogs’ line. The Crimson’s persistence earned the team a valuable penalty corner. Yale denied an initial shot by junior Devon Shapiro but failed to put enough muscle on the ball to clear...
After coming out on top in a back-and-forth Game One battle, the Harvard women’s volleyball team rode the momentum to defeat Maine, 3-1 (35-33, 30-23, 25-30, 30-21), at the Malkin Athletic Center in Saturday afternoon’s exhibition action. “That was a very important game to win,” said Crimson coach Jennifer Weiss of the game one victory, which included 25 tie scores and ten lead changes. In the first frame, the teams traded points most of the way, and Maine (2-10) staved...