Northeastern unravels late
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Poised to pick up its sixth straight win, Northeastern instead left Atlanta yesterday with another close loss in an up-and-down season.
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BROOKLINE -- By halftime, with a 41-0 lead over Cheyney University, the only question that remained for Northeastern was whether the final score of this year's season opener at Parsons Field would exceed last year's 78-6 shellacking of Stonehill.
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Less than three minutes from a confidence-building win, Northeastern was left to lament a loss that made its climb in the Colonial Athletic Conference even tougher.
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Jasmine Crew scored a team-high 16 points and Northeastern survived a late surge from Drexel as the host Huskies defeated the Dragons, 59-54, last night for their first Colonial Athletic Association victory.
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Northeastern was the flavor of the month. Finally. This was supposed to be the year that anybody could win the Beanpot, so there was rampant speculation that the Huskies might dethrone the perennial champs from Boston University on the opening night of the Hub's 55th annual college hockey festival.
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AMHERST -- In close games all season long, the University of Massachusetts had been able to shift to a higher gear. Yesterday, they stalled.
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North champion Andover is gone, having moved up to challenge the heavyweights of Division 1. That opens the door for other contenders, starting with Lynnfield , which lost to Andover, 7-1, in the sectional final.
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Junior defenseman Jacob Micflikier scored a pair of goals and Preston Callander had three assists as the University of New Hampshire men's team handed Merrimack a 4-1 Hockey East loss last night in North Andover.
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Northeastern and Maine are fighting the same symptoms. It's definitely that fumbling, falling, intercepting, dragging your head because you can't buy a win sickness.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Massachusetts has lost in a variety of ways at the Liacouras Center since it opened in 1997.
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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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Appalachian State's shocking victory at Michigan yesterday showed that schools from the Football Championship Subdivision have a right to believe they can go into the home of a Division 1-A team and do what seems unthinkable. Northeastern's performance at Northwestern showed what usually happens in these matchups.
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AMHERST -- A lot of bits were being champed very hard. For the University of Massachusetts football team, this past offseason seemed to last for years. The Minutemen didn't need much reminding about how they lost the last two games of 2005, falling short of the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs after starting out with a 7-2 record and a No. ...
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Northeastern hit Maine with a 10-0 run to start the game and the Black Bears never fully recovered as the Huskies had their way at Solomon Court last night in an 82-51 victory.
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One line did most of the work as the Northeastern men's hockey team defeated Merrimack, 5-1, in a Hockey East contest last night in North Andover.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It had been seven years since the University of Massachusetts had won a basketball game in the Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, which is either intimate or claustrophobic, depending on your bias. It had been even longer since the Minutemen had so much at stake.
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WORCESTER -- When Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore looked up at the clock late in the fourth quarter of yesterday's game against Northeastern, he had to wonder where the second half had gone.