Harvard Varsity Club NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Sports Volume 47 Issue No. 1 www.varsityclub.harvard.edu September 23, 2004 Football Opens Season With Convincing Win Drenching Rain Did Not Hinder Crimson Attack by Chuck Sullivan Lister might be the only person Director of Athletic Communications under Harvard’s employ who wasn’t necessarily pleased with Saturday’s Jon Lister, whose job, among other result. Under weather conditions that things, is to oversee the maintenance and yielded the potential to level what had caretaking of Harvard’s outdoor playing appeared to be a significant edge in talent fields, could only stand and watch what was for the Crimson as well as create the happening on the Harvard Stadium grass possibility of serious injury, Harvard’s Saturday. skill shone through, and the Crimson After the Crimson’s 35-0 Opening Day came out of the game largely unscathed. win against Holy Cross, Lister and The Crimson broke the game open in the members of his staff spent about two hours second quarter, emptied the bench in the on the Stadium field, which had been pelted third period, and simply tried to keep the by downpours and shredded by the cleats clock moving in the fourth quarter. It was of 22 200-to-300-pound men for the better pouring, after all. part of three hours. We don’t know for All three units — offense, defense certain what they were talking about, but it and special teams — made measurable likely had something to do with how exactly contributions. The offense reeled off 325 they were going to have that field ready for yards and scored on six of its first 10 play again in three weeks. drives. The zero in the visitors’ column speaks volumes about the defensive Lowell K. Chow / The Harvard Crimson. Copyright (c) 2004 performance, but perhaps more impressive was that the Crimson forced five Holy Cross turnovers. And the special teams produced a punt return for a touchdown, two field goals, three PATs and a two-point conversion. “I thought we did all of the things Clifton Dawson ‘06 scored three we needed to do today,” said head coach touchdowns in the first half in the Tim Murphy. “We had to do a great job of Crimson’s 35-0 win over Holy Cross ball security and forcing takeaways, and if you can do that on a bad-weather day, you’re going to win some games. So overall, grand ‘H’ logo at the 50-yard line. The it was a very solid effort for our first game.” Stadium also was adorned with a new small To Lister and his staff’s credit, the scoreboard at the closed end as well as a Stadium field looked magnificent when the fitted sign for each of Harvard’s seven protective tarp was removed 45 minutes national championship and 10 Ivy League prior to kickoff. The green itself was title teams. meticulously manicured, the end zones The defense set up Harvard’s first score of the season when linebacker Matt Brian Edwards ‘05 returned a punt 87 painted with the familiar “HARVARD” and Thomas pressured Crusader quarterback yards for a Crimson TD. “CRIMSON” in opposite ends, and the Continued on page 3 Great Start to Fall Seasons as Teams Gear Up for Ivy Play by Kevin Anderson MEN’S WATER POLO (1-1 Overall) Assistant Director of Athletic Communications A new regime has taken the helm of the men’s water polo program and it WOMEN’S SOCCER (2-3-1, 0-0 Ivy) produced immediate results, earning a split Freshman Jamie Greenwald (St. Louis, of a weekend trip to New York. With head MO) and senior Emily Colvin (Vestavia coach Erik Farrar at poolside, the Crimson Hills, Ala.) have led the offensive charge opened its season with a convincing 17-9 for Harvard with a team-leading two goals win over Queens College. Harvard jumped David Silverman Photo apiece. Greenwald posted her second tally out to a 9-0 first quarter lead and never in Sunday’s 3-0 win over New Hampshire, looked back. The Crimson then dropped a while returning All-Ivy senior Alisha tough 22-11 affair with No. 7 St. Francis Moran (Milton, MA) scored her first goal (N.Y.) on Saturday. On the weekend, senior of the season against the Wildcats. Another Rick Offsay (Encino, CA) had six goals, freshman, Megan Merritt (Northridge, while fellow seniors Greg Marvin-Smith CA), has been a key playmaker as she has (Madison, CT) and Mike Gerrity (Poway, notched two assists in her six games thus CA) each added five tallies. far. Harvard returns to action this weekend Playing her normal role of defensive when it hosts Navy at the ECAC stopper has been junior keeper Katie Championships at Blodgett Pool. Shields (Dana Point, CA). She has made appearances in five contests, posting a 1.31 Continued on Page 2 goals against average while turning away 31 shots. Alisha Moran ‘05 Continued from Page 1 The return of 2002 Ivy League Player of the Year, Kaego CROSS COUNTRY Obechie (Diamond Bar, CA) from injury has provided an instant Senior Alasdair McLean-Foreman (Bath, England) took first spark. She was named to the New England Challenge all- place in the individual standings and helped Harvard place second tournament team and is second on the team in kills (51) despite in the team standings at the season-opening Wildcat Invitational. playing in only 15 of the 18 games. McLean-Foreman placed first by more than eight seconds in the Senior Kim Gould (Menlo Park, CA) and sophomore Sarah 83-man field as he broke the tape in 24 minutes, 56.71 seconds. Cebron (La Jolla, CA) have split time at setter, with Gould handing out 128 assists and Cebron dishing out 83. As a team, they are MEN’S SOCCER (3-2, 0-0 Ivy) averaging 12.6 assists per game. After dropping its first two matches of the season, the Crimson seem to have found its groove, winning three WOMEN’S GOLF straight contests, including the Senior Jeen-Joo Kang (Vestal, NY) shot rounds of 78 and 79 championship match of the for a third-place score of 157 to pace Harvard’s women’s golf team UMass Classic over the host to a third-place finish in the team standings of the Dartmouth Minutemen. Invitational Sunday at Hanover Country Club. Junior Anthony Kang was three shots off of the first place score of 154 and was Tornaritis (Groton, MA) one of four players tied for third in the field of 108. picked up the Freshman Jessica Hazlett (Palo Alto, CA) placed 19th in the tournament MVP individual standings in her Crimson debut with rounds of 85-79— award after scoring 164. Freshman Debbi Amanti (Lynnfield, MA) as 23rd with 83- two goals an adding 83—166. an assist in the two Freshman Katie Loncke (Sacramento, CA) and sophomore wins. Junior co- Jacqueline Rooney (Aurora, IL) finished tied for 28th, with both captain Will Craig shooting 88-79—167. (Federal Way, WA) Anthony along with seniors SAILING Tornaritis ‘06 was Sam Wiggin Harvard’s coed sailing team endured rough conditions to finish named MVP of (Oklahoma City, OK), in the top half of the 20-team field with an eighth-place finish at the UMass Jason Andersen (Atlanta, the Nevins Trophy regatta Sunday at the United States Merchant Classic. Ga.) and sophomore Matt Marine Academy. Hoff (St. Louis, MO) were all The Crimson got an eighth-place finish from its A Division named to the all-tournament entry, skippered by sophomore Clay Johnson (Toms River, NJ), team. Freshman Michael while the B Division crew, skippered by junior Genny Tulloch Fucito (Weston, MA) scored (Houston, TX), took ninth. The Crimson C Division boat, manned his first collegiate goal in the by freshman Kyle Kovacs (Pennington, NJ), took 10th in the field. 4-2 win over Hartford. The event, originally scheduled to take place Saturday and Sunday, was squeezed into a one-day affair given the rainy and FIELD HOCKEY windy conditions of Saturady. Sunday’s racing featured steady 20 (4-1, 1-0 Ivy) to 25-knot winds, which resulted in capsizes and breakdowns for Head coach Sue Caples picked up the 150th win of her career a number of the participants. in Harvard’s 5-1 win over Providence on Wednesday at Jordan Field. The offense, as it has been all season, was led by senior Shelley Maasdorp (Harare, Zimbabwe) who scored two goals and added an assist. For the season Maasdorp has a team-leading 10 points (4 goals, two assists), while sophomores Gretchen Fuller (Shaker Heights, OH) and Julie Lane (Weston, MA) each have four goals and are tied for second on the team with eight points. Those two combined to score only one goal in 2003. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL (2-3, 0-0 Ivy) The Crimson have opened 2004 with a 2-3 start, at one point only having six available players due to freshman week responsibilities for the class of 2008. Harvard picked up impressive wins over St. Peter’s and New Hampshire and open Ivy play this coming weekend against Dartmouth at the Dartmouth Invitational. Senior Nilly Schweitzer (Woodside, CA), a second team All-Ivy selection in 2003, leads the team in kills (63) and digs (43). Genny Tulloch ‘06 Friends of Hockey Golf Tournament - September 17, 2004 Left: Sam Parkman ‘83, Jan Daale, John Greeley and Harvard Varsity Club Board Member Walter Greeley ‘53. Right: Friends of Harvard Hockey Co-Chair Scott Fusco ‘85 and golf tournament organizer Bill Cleary III ‘85 handled the many details of the day.