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...Harvard women’s tennis team welcomed three guests to Cambridge for the first weekend of the Ivy League season. It showed less hospitality on the court, beating them to set up a highly anticipated showdown with No. 42 Penn next weekend. On Friday, the Crimson beat Cornell 6-1, and then dispatched Columbia 7-0 on Saturday. On Sunday, the team dusted Rice by a 5-2 margin in a non-conference tune-up at the Beren Tennis Center. Harvard (13-6, 2-0 Ivy) will carry a three-game winning streak into Friday’s match...
...varsity, which endured a topsy-turvy season last year.The first freshman boat posted a time of 5:54.1 to claim yet another dominant win over host Brown, as the Bears finished two boatlengths behind in a time of 6:00.1.Harvard returns to action next weekend in a Compton Cup showdown with No. 1 Princeton, against whom the Crimson varsity has not lost on the Charles since Harry Parker became head coach in 1963. “[This race] was a kick in the pants,” Henderson said. “Hopefully we’ll just use this...
...lightweights learned that lesson well last year against Georgetown, which handed Harvard its only dual defeat of the 2005 season. An April 22 race with Navy in Annapolis, Md., followed by a showdown with Yale and Princeton the next week rounds out the EARC dual season for Harvard, which gathered momentum last season on two comeback wins over the Bulldogs and the Midshipmen...
Princeton last beat Harvard in a 2001 dual race in New Jersey, and the two teams will meet up on April 16th in their first showdown since last season’s IRA final. The Crimson has not surrendered a dual race since its defeat to Princeton five seasons ago and has not lost to the Tigers on the Charles since Parker became head coach in 1963. Still, No. 1 Princeton will likely be the favorite in the season’s early matchup...
Amid near freezing temperatures and soggy conditions, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team faced off just as much against the weather as against No. 15 Boston University yesterday at Jordan Field. At the end of the showdown, however, it was the strong defense of the Terriers, with the Crimson losing 11-8. “We can’t commit to playing for the full sixty minutes of the game,” sophomore Caroline Simmons said. Harvard (3-6, 1-0 Ivy) would not score a single goal in 37:39. After scoring seven...