Harvard Varsity Club NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Sports Volume 47 Issue No. 9 www.varsityclub.harvard.edu April 15, 2005 Tale of Two Seasons For Record Setting Season For Women’s Hockey Team Men’s Hockey Team by Cassie Lawton by Jamie Weir Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Assistant Director of Athletic Communications When the Harvard women’s hockey team entered the Christ- While ending too early for nearly anyone’s taste, the 2004-05 mas break with a 7-6-1 record, few outside the Crimson locker room Harvard men’s hockey season (21-10-3, 15-5-2 ECAC) will enter envisioned the season ending in Harvard’s third-straight NCAA title the annals as one of the most successful and rewarding in recent game appearance and winning every possible title up to that point, memory. An overtime loss to but that is just what the Crimson did. New Hampshire in the first When the dust settled, Harvard had turned it around in typical round of the NCAA Tournament record-setting fashion, completing the tale of two seasons by earn- ended the careers of one of the ing another berth in the national championship game. The Crimson most successful senior classes in put together a 19-0-2 record in 2005, outscoring opponents 104-27 school history, and marked an heading into the title game against Minnesota. Harvard’s run in- impressive level of cluded its seventh-straight Beanpot, fourth ECAC regular season accomplishment for head coach title, third ECAC Tournament championship, fifth NCAA Tourna- Ted Donato ‘91 in his first season ment appearance, fourth NCAA Frozen Four appearance, third behind the bench. NCAA title game and the 400th win in program history. The Crim- While many of Harvard’s son closed the season 26-7-3, the sixth 20-win campaign in the last best teams are fondly seven seasons. remembered for awe-inspiring Harvard re- offensive displays, it was the Head Coach Ted Donato ‘91 grouped to battle its sparkling Crimson defense which is the hallmark of this most way into contention recent chapter in Harvard history. From the Hobey Baker caliber for the ECAC campaign of senior netminder Dov Grumet-Morris (Evanston, IL) Scott Weider Photo Scott Weider Hockey League and and the staunch blueline tone set by seniors Noah Welch (Brighton, Ivy League crown MA) and Ryan Lannon (Grafton, MA), this was the best defense heading into the fi- in the history of the program, setting a school mark with a team nal weekend of the defense of 1.80 goals per game— second nationally. Grumet-Morris regular season. cemented his place as arguably the best goaltender in school Sophomore Lind- history, capping his four-year Harvard career with 13 school marks. say Weaver The squad set 14 team and individual school records this season. (Leominster, MA) Leading the way throughout was the play of the senior class, provided the game- which helped return Harvard hockey to its rightful place among winner in the 4-3 the nation’s elite over the last four years. The class of 2005 became win over the first class in school history to appear in the ECAC finals in Dartmouth that each of their four seasons – and the first group to accomplish that clinched the Ivy title since the mid-70’s. The class of 2005 went 16-2 in ECAC and the No. 1 seed Tournament play, the most wins of any ECAC program over a Senior Nicole Corriero celebrating after the heading into the four-year period. Crimson’s triple overtime win against ECACHL playoffs. Mercyhurst in the NCAA quarterfinals. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 Spring Teams In the Hunt for Ivy Titles Women’s Water Polo Pulls Off Impressive Win by Kevin Anderson Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Women’s Water Polo (14-6 Overall, 5-2 CWPA) It was the basketball equivalent of a court-length alley-oop with a second left on the clock where the only thing you could do was tip it in. Amazingly, after rallying from a 3-1 deficit against Brown to tie the match at 8-8, head coach Erik Farrar called his last timeout and sent everyone to the front of the net. Everyone except junior goalkeeper Lydia Gardner (Crownsville, MD). Gardner fired a pool-length pass and freshman Lauren Snyder (Jenison, MI) played the heroine by tipping in the pass and sending the Smith Center, which was filled with Brown fans, into a stunned silence and the Crimson sideline into a raucous celebration. Harvard knocked off Brown for the second time in three tries this season and, coupled with its win earlier in the day over Connecticut College, the Crimson has now won four of its last five. In those five games, Harvard has outscored its opponents 50-27. Its only loss came to Princeton, which has now defeated the Crimson twice this season. A third place finish at the ECAC Championships saw the Codini sisters Teresa and Tina earn all-tournament honors while Gardner grabbed first-team goalie honors. Junior goalkeeper Lydia Gardner celebrated with Coach Farrar and Continued on page 2 teammates after her last-second goal sank Brown. Picture by David Silverman - www.dspics.com Sports, continued from page 1 Zach Widbin (New City, NY). Scholl has team- highs in goals and points (13 goals, 3 assists, and Baseball (14-9 Overall, 7-1 Ivy League) 16 points), while Widbin is second on the squad Despite two recent non-league losses at home, (10 goals, 4 assists, 14 points). Harvard sits at 7-1 in Ivy play, one game ahead of Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe Division. Freshman Women’s Lacrosse Steffan Wilson (State College, PA) has been one of (2-7 Overall, 1-2 Ivy League) the best newcomers in the Ancient Eight. Wilson First-year netminder Kathryn Tylander ‘07 (Al- not only leads the Crimson in homers with five but exandria, VA) went down with a knee injury and has come in from his third base position to pick up then her backup, Kristin Demorest ‘06 (Bloomfield three saves, all in Ivy contests. The Crimson took Township, MI) was out for the Penn game. Enter three of four games April 9-10, sweeping Cornell hockey defenseman, sophomore Caitlin Cahow before splitting a pair with Princeton. Pitching was (Vinalhaven, ME). Cahow stepped in and made the key for Harvard as it got a near perfect game nine saves, as the Crimson rallied from a four-goal from junior Frank Herrmann (Rutherford, NJ). deficit to force overtime against the No. 15 Quak- Herrmann didn’t allow a walk or a hit until the top ers. The moment was not to be as Harvard fell, of the sixth, in the seven-inning doubleheader dropping its seventh straight contest, an 11-10 opener. He allowed just one hit and one walk as defeat to the Red and Blue. Natalie Curtis ‘08 and the Crimson took game one against the Big Red. Elaine Belitsos ‘05 (Baltimore, MD) are leading Senior Mike Morgalis (Cincinnati, OH) got the win Junior Frank Herrmann the Crimson with 14 goals apiece, while two-sport in game two after going seven innings. Princeton star junior Allie Kaveney (Belmont, MA) has 10 took game one on Sunday, 7-2, but Harvard took advantage of eight tallies and six assists. Freshman Tara Schoen (Darien, CT) is third Tiger errors to win the final game 13-8. on the squad with nine goals. Caroline Hines ‘07 (Rye, NY) is first on the team with nine assists and junior Bridget Driscoll (Hingham, Softball (10-12 Overall, 3-1 Ivy League) MA) is first in caused turnovers with 22 . Head coach Jenny Allard collected her 250th career win and her 100th Ivy win recently as her Crimson squad ran off seven straight Men’s Golf wins to get back to .500. Sitting at 3-1 in Ivy play, the Crimson heads Senior Chris Wu (Upland, CA) turned in rounds of 74 and 73 to Princeton April 16 with memories of their 20-inning marathon for a two-day total of 147 to place eighth in the individual stand- game against the Tigers last year on Soldiers Field, a game the Crim- ings and help Harvard to a 12th-place finish at the Yale Spring son won 2-1. Playing this season without first team All-Ivy performer Opener at The Course at Yale. Harvard finished with a two-day Virginia Fritsch ‘07 (Los Gatos, CA), who is out for the season with score of 619 (312-307), leaving the Crimson one stroke behind Bryant an injury, several freshmen have stepped up for Harvard including and Fordham, which tied for 10th. Shelley Madick (Tarzana, CA) and Danielle Kerper (Poway, CA). Last week Madick went 4-0 with a 0.28 earned-run average. She Women’s Golf struck out 36 batters in 25.1 innings, including 13 Ks in the Crimson’s Freshman Katie Loncke (Sacramento, CA) was the individual 3-1 Ivy League win against Brown. She had 12 strikeouts without a medalist and Harvard set its school record for 36 holes as the Crim- walk in a 4-1 non-league win against Rhode Island. Kerper mean- son rolled to head-to-head wins against Brown and Dartmouth at while has mashed four homeruns and driven in a team-high 16 runs. Cape Cod Country Club. Loncke fired a 74 in Sunday’s second round Senior Lauren Stefanchik (Berkeley Heights, NJ) leads the team to finish with a two-day total of 151 to place first in the individual with 17 hits and a .447 batting average.