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Though the Big Red never took the lead in the fifth game, the Crimson did not lead by more than two points until a monstrous kill by co-captain Kaego Ogbechie pushed the score to 13-10. After a timeout, the Big Red rallied for three straight points, knotting the score at 13. But a kill by Schweitzer put Harvard at match point. As Schweitzer went to serve, Cornell called another timeout...
...lingered. Though every team likes closing out matches in the fourth frame, it was especially important to Harvard, considering it had lost all six matches which went the distance in 2003. The Big Red jumped out to an imposing 28-21 lead, but the Crimson refrained from using a timeout. Nevertheless, Ogbechie and Schweitzer led a furious counterattack of six straight points culminating with an ace. Cornell, however, took the next two points to close out the frame and force the tiebreaker...
Trailing 13-9 coming out of a timeout, Harvard ran off six of the next seven points—three on two kills and an ace by Mahon—to retake the lead. The Crimson pressed its advantage, pushing its lead to 18-15 after two consecutive Schweitzer kills...
Harvard claimed a four-point lead, 22-18, after BC’s Verena Rost misfired on a set directly out of an Eagle timeout. The Crimson maintained that margin until BC put together a 5-0 run to take a 26-25 lead. Harvard bounced right back to take three out of the next four points and four of six for a 29-28 advantage, earning its first game point. The Crimson seemed to have the game wrapped up on the next point, as a bad Eagle pass forced BC just to lob the ball across...
After an Eagle timeout, the Crimson kept rolling, twice pushing its lead to nine and forcing another BC stoppage. Harvard took four of the final five points for the 30-18 victory in the second game...