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Harvard Varsity Club NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Sports Volume 49 Issue No. 6 www.varsityclub.harvard.edu February 27, 2007 Senior Night Win Over Cornell Boosts Men’s Hockey As ECACHL Playoffs Set To Begin by Casey Hart got a memorable Senior Night and a momentum-building win Assistant Director of Athletic Communications heading into the ECAC Hockey League playoffs. Reese scored the game’s first goal in the second period. After Cornell tied the score The Harvard men’s hockey team’s 2006-07 senior class had in the third, junior Mike Taylor (Maple Grove, MN) and sopho- not seen any of the previous three classes lose on Senior Night more Jimmy Fraser (Port Huron, MI) scored for a 3-1 victory. Fra- at Bright Hockey Center, but they know a senior-night loss ser assisted on the goals by Reese and Taylor. Senior Justin Tobe sting—especially against your rival. After all, the Crimson visited (Northville, MI) made 26 saves and shared honors as ECACHL Cornell for the Big Red’s final regular-season home game of 2006 Goalie of the Week. and dealt Cornell a 4-3 loss. Following the game, Reese, Tobe and fellow seniors Brendan The Big Red had its chance for revenge this season. Cornell Byrne (Milton, MA), Kevin Du (Spruce Grove, ALB), Ryan Maki came into Bright for Senior (Shelby Township, MI) and Men’s hockey class of 2007: #29 Brendan Byrne, #2 captain Dylan Reese, Night Feb. 24 ranked 16th in the Steve Mandes (Doylestown, #7 Ryan Maki, #27 Kevin Du, #33 Justin Tobe and #16 Steve Mandes. nation. Harvard, meanwhile, photo by dspics.com PA) were honored for their had been playing well of late contributions over four years and was coming off a 4-1 win that have seen the Crimson against Colgate a night earlier, win 72 games and—with but was wrapping up a rocky the 2007 postseason still to regular season. come— two ECACHL titles. But the Crimson had its “It was a great win for the own plans for revenge. class and for the team,” Reese “We talked a little about said, noting that the electric last year’s game up there,” said crowd of more than 3,000 Harvard captain Dylan Reese made the night even more (Pittsburgh, PA). “But we were special. “We wouldn’t have more focused on what they wanted to play any other team did to us earlier this year,” he than Cornell.” added, referring to the Big Red’s But while Reese is a senior, he late rally for a 3-2 win against is also the team captain, and he Harvard Nov. 10 in Ithaca, N.Y. knows this is the time of year “We wanted payback.” when the Crimson gets rolling Reese and his teammates for a long playoff run. Harvard got their payback. They also Continued on page 3 Winter Season Updates Women’s Basketball (12-12, 10-1 Ivy) Men’s Fencing (12-1, 4-1 Ivy) • The Crimson finished an undefeated month of February • Benji Ungar delivered a 3-0 performance in epee, includ- with an 8-0 record as part of a current nine-game winning ing the winning point, to lift Harvard to a thrilling 14-13 win streak heading into the final week of play. against Columbia at the Ivy League North Championships, • The month concluded with Harvard clinching at least a allowing the Crimson to earn a piece of the league champion- tie for its 10th Ivy League championship with a 66-51 win at ship for the third straight year. Princeton Feb. 24. • The win against the Bulldogs left Harvard at 4-1 in the • Harvard needs to win just once over its final three games to Ivies, forging a tie with Columbia for the league title. The clinch an outright championship and the league’s automatic championship is the third Ivy men’s fencing championship for berth to the NCAA Championship. Harvard plays at home Harvard. March 2 and 3 versus Cornell and Columbia before its Senior • Harvard returns to action March 3 at the IFA Champion- Night game versus Dartmouth on Tuesday, March 6. ships at Princeton, NJ before competing in the NCAA North- • Niki Finelli was the Ivy League Player of the Week on east regional March 10 at Medford, MA. Feb. 12 after scoring 46 points against Penn and Princeton. Fi- Benji Ungar ‘08 Emily Tay ‘09 nelli was 6-for-7 from beyond the arc and 8-for-8 from the charity stripe for a career-high 26 points against Penn. In a win over Princeton she had 20 points on 8-of-17 shooting from the floor, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals. • Emily Tay earned the league’s top award the follow- ing week, Feb. 19, after averag- Women’s Fencing (13-2 5-1 Ivy) ing 14.5 points and 8.0 assists in a pair of wins over Yale and • Harvard’s women’s fencing team, ranked third nationally, Brown. Tay put up 12 points took comfortable wins against Brown and Yale Feb. 25 at the with eight assist and four Ivy League North Championships at Gordon Track. But the rebounds against Brown and Crimson’s hopes for a repeat as Ivy League champion were added 17 points against Yale. dashed by a talented Columbia squad, which was a 22-5 win- During the week she cracked ner against Harvard, giving the Lions the league title. Harvard’s top-10 list for assists • Harvard returns to action March 3 at the IFA Championships in a single season. at Princeton, NJ before competing in the NCAA Northeast regional March 10 at Medford, MA. Women’s Hockey (23-6-2, 17-4-1 ECACHL) Women’s Swimming (7-2, 6-2 Ivy) • Harvard won three of the final six events at the ECAC • Sixth-ranked Harvard swept Yale in two games in the ECAC Championships to rally for the team title Feb. 18 at Blodgett Hockey League quarterfinals Feb. 23-24. In Saturday’s clinching Pool. victory, senior forward Julie Chu scored the game-winning goal • Harvard came into the day in third place, just 170 points be- with 2:07 left in regulation – just 29 seconds after Yale had tied hind leader Marist despite only competing with nine student- the game – to give Harvard the 2-1 victory. athletes—half a team—for the first two days of the meet. Nine • The win completes a series sweep for Harvard, which defeat- more Crimson joined the squad after returning from Ivies at ed Yale by a 3-1 count in Friday’s series opener. Harvard moves Princeton, and Harvard finished with 648 points to Marist’s on to the ECACHL semifinal round for the ninth consecutive 589.5. Rider placed third in the 16-team field with 409.5 points. year as the Crimson bids for its fourth straight tournament • Alexandra Clarke, Noelle Bassi, Kelly Mooney, and Kyle title. Harvard will now play St. Lawrence at 5 p.m. on Saturday Cutter, Meaghan Colling all won events on the final day of March 3 at Dartmouth’s Thompson Arena. The finals will be the meet. Clarke took the 1,650-yard freestyle and Bassi the played on Sunday at 2 p.m. 200 butterfly. Clarke, Mooney, Cutter and Colling combined to • Harvard has won nine of its last 11 games and is playing win the 400 free relay, edging Rider by 0.22 seconds. sound hockey following a 4-3 triple overtime loss versus Boston • The Crimson finished second in the Ivy League champion- College in the first round of the Beanpot. ships but the Crimson set 12 new school records during the • Chu and sophomore forward Sarah Vaillancourt were named meet. Clarke set her individual record of the meet in the 1,650 finalists for the 2007 Patty Kazmaier Award —the top individual freestyle and junior Lindsay Hart set a new Ivy League mark award in the sport. in the 200 backstroke for her fourth individual school record • The Patty Kazmaier Award has been presented to the top of the weekend. She was named the Harvard COOP Athlete of women’s college player since 1998, and the award has gone to the Week for her efforts as she, Clarke and Bassi (200 butterfly) a Harvard player four times in its first nine years.Jennifer Bot- all won their events. terill ‘02-03 earned the honor in 2001 and 2003 and remains the only two-time winner of the award. A.J. Mleczko ‘97-99 took (8-3, 5-1 Ivy) home the award in 1999, and Angela Ruggiero ‘02-04 was the Men’s Squash winner in 2004. • Harvard advanced to the semifinal round of the CSA Team (0-6, 0-0 Ivy) Championships in New Haven, CT. and finished the tourna- Women’s Tennis ment by winning the third place match, 9-0, over Yale. The • Ranked 26th nationally to start the season, Harvard has win marked the second victory in five days for Harvard over squared off against six straight nationally ranked opponents. the Bulldogs. Three of those losses have come in close fashion, with 4-3 • Harvard All-American Ilan Oren stayed undefeated with setbacks versus Boston University, #40 Southern Methodist four wins during the week at the No. 2 position to finish the and #28 Virginia. dual match season at 11-0. • Beier Ko entered the season ranked 16th nationally as Har- • Freshman Colin West burst onto the scene and established vard’s No. 1 player. She recorded a 5-1 record in dual matches himself as a player to watch in coming years with a 10-1 over- in February and has teamed with Lena Litvak for a 4-2 record all record between the No.’s 3 and 4 positions.

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