Game Harvard just can't win
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Clarkson has been one of the top teams in the ECAC all season, so Harvard knew it would have its hands full last night at Bright Hockey Center. And despite an inspired effort by the Crimson, 11th-ranked Clarkson prevailed, 4-2, when senior center Steve Zalewski scored the winner from the right circle at 16:44 of the third period and completed ...
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It was a long time coming, but Harvard finally beat Princeton last night. The 61-57 victory at Lavietes Pavilion marked the first time the Crimson have defeated the Tigers since Feb. 20, 1999.
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His Holy Cross team showed character and improvement last weekend in a 37-31 loss to San Diego, but first-year coach Tom Gilmore knows the task will be more difficult at Harvard Stadium Saturday.
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For the Boston College women's basketball team, last night's game could not come soon enough. Providence might have preferred that it not come at all.
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They had lost to Vermont, 89-45, last Sunday and barely got by Longwood University, 63-58, a team with a 1-18 record, on Tuesday. Put it this way -- the University of Hartford Hawks weren't exactly on a roll going into last night's game at Boston University.
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My sports colleagues tell me that the epithet The Game is reserved for the annual Harvard-Yale football tilt. Fine. But for some of us, The Game will take place Thursday evening, when Hartford's Trinity College squash team invades Harvard's Barnaby courts to try to extend its astonishing winning streak to 114 consecutive matches.
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In a game that seemed to mirror the season, the University of Massachusetts started strong, but failed to finish last night and fell to Fordham, 76-72, before 4,521 at the Mullins Center.
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In hockey, you keep shooting the puck on net, and sometimes good things happen. Harvard did that last night at Bright Center and earned a 3-1 victory over 10th-ranked Vermont.
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It's the only Division 1-AA football game in town today, and based on form, it could be a high-scoring one when Northeastern visits Harvard Stadium to take on the undefeated Crimson.
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Mike McLeod's big game was too much for the Big Red yesterday. McLeod rushed for 104 yards and scored three touchdowns as Yale defeated Cornell, 21-9, in Ithaca, N.Y.
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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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Brian Cusworth and Matt Stehle scored 16 points each, leading Harvard to a 64-53 win over Brown last night in Providence.
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Something has to give -- either 15th-ranked Harvard's status as the nation's only undefeated Division 1-AA team or 17th-ranked Penn's 20-game Ivy League winning streak -- when the teams square off Saturday in Philadelphia.
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They only led once. Luckily for the Boston College Eagles, it came at the end of a game they otherwise had a lot of reasons to lose.
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The throbbing in Noah Welch's right knee, courtesy of an awkward tumble early in the game last night, was the main reason for the Harvard defenseman's discomfort. But the effort the Crimson captain saw from his club against Colgate made the pain even worse.
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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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Last year's game against Cornell, was both a win and a loss for the Harvard football team. The Crimson defeated Cornell, 27-0, but lost quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick in the fourth quarter because of a fracture in his right hand that bumped him out of the lineup for two games.