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...expected the final score line at Bright Hockey Center on Friday night, least of all the Harvard men’s hockey team.Expectations were high coming into this first-round ECAC tournament matchup. The Crimson (9-16-6, 9-9-6 ECAC) had gone undefeated in its last six contests and just last weekend took down then-sixth-seeded Princeton in its final regular season game.It was only natural that no one foresaw Brown—the tournament’s 12th seed and a team that had not won a single regular season Ivy game—handing...
...biggest event of the weekend will take place when the Harvard women’s hockey team hosts the ECAC finals against RPI for a chance to go to the NCAA tournament. After beginning the season unremarkably, the Crimson women have hit their stride and will look to ride the strong play of tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt to another Frozen Four birth. The puck drops Saturday at 1:00 p.m., while other semifinalists Dartmouth and St. Lawrence will battle at 4:00 p.m. The champion will be crowned after Sunday’s 2:00 p.m. matchup between the winners...
...Bock, who was named the team’s Best Defensive Player and an All-Ivy League Second Team pick last year. The senior had caught 22 runners trying to steal a base entering the 2009 season, and Bock gunned down two in the team’s opening tournament against Kansas and North Texas to tie Harvard’s all-time record. “Hayley, she leads kind of by example,” freshman pitcher Rachel Brown says. “She’s such a competitor, and...it’s amazing to have...
...Anantara luxury resort in northern Thailand's Golden Triangle will host the annual King's Cup, a matchup in which elephants replace the more traditional horses. Ten teams fielding players from around a dozen countries will be competing trunk to trunk. In case you're wondering, the tournament is sanctioned by the World Elephant Polo Association, which set game regulations in 1982. (Two key rules: elephants are not allowed to lie down in front of the goal, and they must resist the temptation to pick up the ball with their trunks...
...hotel guests who want to join the action, the Anantara and the neighboring Four Seasons Tented Camp will field show teams that will play each other without disturbing competitive play. The tournament's proceeds go to charity, and so far the Cup has raised $200,000 for the National Elephant Institute, which ministers to Thailand's 3,000-plus domesticated Elephas maximus. One year's money covered the construction of a custom-made pachyderm ambulance. (See 10 things to do in Hong Kong...