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REMEMBER: NEWS & VIEWS IS Harvard Varsity Club AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL Send an email to [email protected] and put “Email News & Views” in the NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Sports subject line and you will receive the next issue in your inbox, days ahead of the printed version. Vol. 46, No. 9 May 7, 2004 Two Ivy Titles and Postseason Play Highlight Spring Season by Chuck Sullivan MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT CREW ule complete, this Crimson crew appears Director of Athletic Communications (5-0) poised to somehow surpass its lofty goals. Expectations were high for Harvard, In what figured to be its toughest test of the MEN’S TENNIS which came into the 2004 season as the pro- regular season, top-ranked Harvard took a (17-6, 7-0 Ivy League) hibitive favorite to repeat as national cham- four-length win against fifth-ranked North- Ranked No. 20 in the most recent Inter- pions. With the head-to-head racing sched- eastern on the Charles River on May 1. The collegiate Tennis Association computer Crimson defeated the Huskies by 14.2 sec- poll, Harvard breezed through the Ivy onds, finishing in 6:11.4. League and captured its second straight Harvard enjoys an off week to prepare league championship. for the Eastern Sprints, which will be held Having earned the league’s auto- May 15 in Worcester, MA. The Crimson sits matic bid into the NCAA tournament, atop the Eastern rankings in the first var- Harvard learns of its pairing on May 5. sity, second varsity and first freshman boat Senior David Lingman (Irvine, CA) rankings. is ranked No. 32 in the most recent rankings and has gone 29-8 in singles MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT CREW play at the No. 1 spot this season. (9-1) Ranked No. 2 in the most recent national WOMEN’S TENNIS poll, Harvard geared up for its postseason (14-9, 7-0 Ivy League) regatta run with open-water wins against Having rebounded from early-sea- Yale and Princeton on May 1 in Princeton, son injuries, Harvard rolled to a perfect NJ. Ivy League record and captured its sec- The Crimson completed the course in ond consecutive outright Ivy title. 5:37.6 to finish comfortably ahead of second- The Crimson, which advanced to the place Yale’s time of 5:41.3 and Princeton’s round of 16 in last year’s NCAA tourna- 5:48.2, allowing Harvard to retain posses- ment, looks for a lengthy postseason run sion of the Goldthwait Cup. once again. Pairings for the tournament Harvard’s lone loss of the head-to-head will be announced on May 5. season was a 1.1-second setback to top- Junior Courtney Bergman (Boca ranked Navy. The Crimson looks to get an- Raton, FL) is 14-7 in singles play, ranked other shot at the Midshipmen at the East- No. 39 nationally, and has teamed with ern Sprints in Worcester May 15. sophomore Susanna Lingman (Irvine, CA) to comprise the No. 21-ranked Courtney Bergman ‘05 doubles tandem in the nation. Continued on page 2 Hendricks, Farkes and Mann Rewrite Record Book As Baseball Finishes Second in Rolfe Division by Kevin Anderson Assistant Director of Athletic Communications in the second game, the Crimson looked poised to make things all square but keep- The year may have changed but the ing Dartmouth at bay would be a daunt- stage was eerily similar. Just as it did in 2003, ing task. The Big Green arrived at Harvard entered the final day of Ivy League O’Donnell Field with some pretty impres- play in 2004 needing to sweep Red Rolfe di- sive credentials. Led by the nation’s lead- vision foe Dartmouth to assure itself of a ing hitter, Ed Lucas, the Big Green ranked chance to play Princeton for the right to call first in the Ivies and 15th in the nation in themselves Ivy Champions. batting at .328. Unlike 2003, however, the Crimson Over the next four innings, could only earn a split with the Big Green Dartmouth managed to tie the game at 7- behind a gutsy performance from senior co- 7. Junior Schuyler Mann (Corvallis, MT) captain Trey Hendricks (Houston, TX), and smacked a three-run homer in the bottom thus finished the season at 13-7 in Ancient of the seventh, giving Harvard a 10-7 lead Eight play, two full games behind the divi- heading into the eighth. Hendricks, who sion rivals to the north. wore so many different hats for the Crim- In the first of back-to-back doublehead- son this season, was called on to quell the ers on May 1, Harvard took the early ad- Dartmouth bats and he did so in the vantage on Big Green hurler Patrick eighth, retiring them in order. Dowling, battering him for 11 hits and 12 The ninth inning, however, proved to earned runs in 2.1 innings. The Crimson be Harvard’s undoing as Dartmouth tacked on eight more runs, handing scored six runs on two three-run homers Dartmouth a 20-9 defeat and closing the Big to steal a 13-10 victory, handing Harvard In only his second season with the Crimson, Zak Green’s division lead to just one game. only its second loss at home all season. Farkes ‘06 is already Harvard’s record holder in Holding a 7-2 lead after three innings Continued on page 5 career homeruns with 22. All-Sports Story, continued from page 1 SOFTBALL (22-19-1, 9-5 Ivy League) WOMEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT CREW Harvard wrapped up the Ivy League portion of its schedule (7-3) with a doubleheader sweep of Dartmouth on May 1 at Soldier Field. Radcliffe regrouped from a disappointing head-to-head loss to The Crimson finished the season in third place in the Ivy League, Yale with sound victories against Boston University and MIT on just one game behind co-champions Cornell and Brown. May 1 on the Charles River. The Black and White looks to ride the With one game remaining on the schedule, junior Cecily Gor- momentum from those wins into the postseason. don (Los Altos, CA) is batting a team-high .333 with four home Radcliffe, which won the NCAA championship last weekend, runs and 20 runs batted in. Freshman Virginia Fritsch (Los Gatos, is back in action May 9 at the Eastern Sprints in Camden, NJ. The CA) has turned in a fine rookie season, with a .306 average and Black and White, which is currently ranked No. 8 in the nation, team-highs of five homers and 26 RBI. then looks to defend its national title at the end of the month in Sacramento, CA. MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (0-1) WOMEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT CREW Harvard heads into the Heptagonal Championships (May 8 (5-1) and 9) in Providence optimistic, thanks to the development of the Radcliffe has ascended to the top spot in the U.S. Rowing na- Crimson’s younger athletes through the spring season. tional poll, and the Black and White showed why on May 1 as it Sophomore Samyr Laine (Newburgh, NY) is emerging as a registered an incredible 28-second victory against MIT in head-to- legitimate star in Ivy circles, and he looks to add an outdoor cham- head action. pionship to his resume following his winning effort at the indoor Radcliffe is poised to earn a top seed for the upcoming Eastern Heps meet. Laine took second in the college division triple jump at Sprints, which will be held May 9 in Camden, NJ. The event figures the Penn Relays with a mark of 15.11 meters. to be a showdown between Radcliffe and second-ranked Princeton. WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD MEN’S GOLF (1-0) Harvard took sixth place at the Ivy League championships, but Harvard geared up for the 2004 Heptagonal Championships came back to take fourth against a strong regional field at the Rhode with solid efforts at the Penn Relays, the New Hampshire Invita- Island Invitational. tional and the Princeton Invitational in the past two weeks. Senior Andrew Klein (Bloomfield Hills, MI) enjoyed a strong Senior Johanna Doyle (County Wicklow, Ireland) took fourth finish to his collegiate career as he took seventh at the URI Invita- place in the college division hammer throw at the Penn Relays with tional and won the individual medal at the Ivy League-Patriot a mark of 56.58 meters. She and senior BreeAnna Gibson (Tulsa, League challenge, shooting an even-par 72 on the final day to finish OK) are among the favorites in the throws at the Heptagonal meet with a two-round score of 148. this weekend. WOMEN’S GOLF WOMEN’S WATER POLO Harvard went out on top as the Crimson closed the (20-13) 2003-04 season with a first-place finish at the Northeast Harvard finished the 2004 sea- Championships in Amherst, MA. son ranked No. 20 in the nation The Crimson had four golfers among the top 10 fin- following a fifth-place finish at ishers in the tournament, which was highlighted by a the CWPA Eastern Champion- first-place effort by senior Meredith Chiampa (Winter ships. The Crimson’s only loss in Park, FL). Chiampa shot a 73 in the final day of compe- the tournament came to tition, thanks in large part to her first career hole-in-one Hartwick, which went on to win on the par-3 fifth hole. the championship and earn a spot in the NCAA tournament. MEN’S LACROSSE Harvard was seeded 10th in (7-5, 2-3 Ivy League) the tournament and knocked off Having won three of its last four games, Harvard three higher-seeded squads in closed its 2004 season under the lights on May 1 against taking fifth.