Harvard and BU advance
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Harvard seemed to be a sure bet in the first round of the women's Beanpot last night, skating into Walter Brown Arena as the top-ranked team in the nation with a 19-1-0 record. Northeastern, meanwhile, was stacking up losses through January as its young team slogged through a difficult Hockey East schedule.
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Boston College and Harvard will head into Monday's Beanpot final with momentum after victories over conference opponents in unfriendly arenas last night.
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The battle for playoff position in Hockey East is heating up, with just four weeks left in the season, and UMass-Lowell and Boston University entered last night's game at Agganis Arena hoping to gain ground. When it was over, the River Hawks had more reasons to feel good about the 4-4 score.
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Freshman Jenn Wakefield had two goals and an assist to lead the third-ranked University of New Hampshire women's hockey team over No. 7 Boston College, 4-1, last night in Conte Forum.
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- You've got to wonder what kind of team Harvard would be if the Crimson got into the flow of their games earlier.
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Alex Barnett scored 21 points, DeVon Mosley added 17 and John Ball grabbed 10 rebounds Friday night as host Dartmouth ended a four-game losing streak with a 73-56 victory against Harvard. The teams split the season series.
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When Brown opens its Ivy League season Saturday against visiting Harvard, there will be more on the minds of the players and coaching staff than avenging last year's 52-14 loss to the Crimson or trying to end Harvard's four-game winning streak against the Bears.
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Coping with a sizable hole in the lineup hasn't been easy for Harvard. Guards Drew Housman and Jim Goffredo played well last night, but Brown used an 11-0 run early in the second half as a springboard to a 70-66 victory over the visiting Crimson.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- If they did not necessarily play better football, it was enough for the Harvard Crimson to play longer yesterday, spotting Lehigh a 24-7 lead midway through the second quarter before storming back with four straight touchdowns, then hanging on for a 35-33 win.
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Clifton Dawson&#39;s third touchdown capped Harvard&#39;s second-half comeback as the Crimson beat Brown 35-34 on Saturday. Dawson scored on a 1-yard run with 12:16 left in the fourth to put Harvard ahead 35-31.
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Holy Cross won last week's game against Harvard with 19 seconds to play. Yesterday's game against Patriot League foe Georgetown was over long before that.
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England -- The Harvard men's team defeated Brown by 2 lengths yesterday to advance to the final of the Ladies Plate for elite eights at the Henley Royal Regatta.
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The University of Massachusetts knows the feeling. It was glad Boston College experienced it last night.
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OK, the guys in the crimson shirts will concede that there's more buzz about The Boat Race when it actually figures to be a boat race. "It makes it more fun, pending what happens at the finish," allows Harvard heavyweight crew captain Nick Baker, whose favored teammates take on archrival Yale this afternoon on the Thames ...
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With the biggest America East game of the season on tap at rival Vermont Sunday, Boston University ran the risk of overlooking the University of Maryland-Baltimore County last night.
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On one bench, that of Boston College, there was a high-scoring offense, plenty of experience, and one of the top power plays in the nation. On the other, that of UMass-Lowell, was a roster filled with youth and inexperience but teeming with determination.
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Boston College and Virginia Tech played the same game last night at Conte Forum, but the Hokies played more of it.