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Senior Driscoll will be another key man in the pitching rotation. Last year he pitched Harvard to the Eastern crown and into the World Series as he beat Princeton, 5-3, in the Eastern title playoff and then demolished New Hampshire, 6-0, in the NCAA District I championship game...
...Golden Gophers of Minnesota earned the shot at the title after outscoring the University of Michigan, 8-5, in the two-game playoff decided by wins and total goals scored. The two squads tied, 3-3, Saturday and the Gophers took Sunday's contest, 5-2. Tech, meanwhile, dumped Michigan State, 6-4 and 9-4, to clinch the second seed...
Harvard's varsity skaters, hoping to earn a ticket to the National Championships next week, clash with Cornell tonight in the ECAC playoff semifinals as they return to Boston Garden, the scene of their only ECAC loss this year, for a 9 p.m. faceoff...
...paper then, Harvard rates a clear advantage over a Clarkson team that has been mediocre all season. Clarkson's overall record is 14-16-1, and its 9-9-1 ECAC mark earned it the eighth spot in the ECAC playoffs. The Golden Knights just barely edged out Northeastern for the final playoff berth by virtue of a narrow 6-4 victory over Vermont Saturday night...
...things appear on paper and how they turn out can usually be two different things in an ECAC playoff game. So lest anyone get overconfident, Harvard fans and players need only think back to 1973. In that quarterfinal game two years ago, a 17-4-1 Harvard squad, ranked second in the East, ran into a similarly mediocre Golden Knight team that was seventh in the East...