Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With an aggressive show of crisp passing and quick stick-work straight from the opening whistle on Saturday, the No. 16 Harvard field hockey team sent the message that it would not be beaten with a potential NCAA Tournament berth on the line...
...victory was especially sweet for the seniors Nagle, Sarles, and Badawy in what might have been their final game at Jordan Field. They led Harvard to its first six-win Ivy season in school history...
...tournament field of 16, six spots will go to league champions, while two spots will go to winners of play-in games between champions from four other conferences. Those games, to be contested on Tuesday, will be Rider at No. 14 B.U and Stanford at Holy Cross...
Judging by the latest National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) poll, Harvard's top competitors for the remaining berths are No. 12 William & Mary (12-7), No. 13 James Madison (12-9), and No. 15 Ohio State (12-8). Harvard could still hold down the sixteenth ranking in the country, yet miss out on the tournament because of the automatic berth given to the unranked Stanford-Holy Cross winner...
...obligatory first question to pass Sunday talk-show hosts' lips, but whenever it did, brother Jeb was there to field it with an appropriate verbal shrug. Yes, there were Democratic squawks from the likes of Bob Kerrey and Carl Levin, wondering why a man so audibly enamored of bipartisanship had been so quick to jerk a chin toward the Gore campaign as an orchestrator of the leak. But if the Republicans protested a little too much (Arlen Specter, we're looking at you and your post-election "hunch"), George W. still has the same slender edge in the national polls...