Game Recaps

Although Ivy League play has just begun, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team took an important step Saturday afternoon toward securing itself a spot in the Ancient Eight tournament at season’s end.

Harvard women’s tennis (7-6) traveled to California for spring break competition, hoping to emerge with a winning record on the season in back-to-back matches against No. 9 California (9-3) on Wednesday and St. Mary’s (8-5) on Thursday.

Co-captain J.P. O’Connor sealed the first perfect season in Harvard wrestling history—35-0—with the program’s third national championship.

Postseason play was short-lived for the Harvard woman’s basketball team. Despite a second half that saw the Crimson outscore Syracuse, there was already too big of a hole for it to matter, as Harvard fell in the first round of the WNIT, 86-67, Thursday night.

Honing their games in the Sunshine State over spring break, the two-time defending Ivy League champions kicked off the 2010 season in sparkling fashion Thursday afternoon, taking down Central Florida, 303-314, at the Red Tail Golf Club in Sorrento, Fla.

In baseball, one bad inning is often enough to derail your chances in a game. This is all too clear for Harvard, which was 0-4 in the first contests of its weeklong road trip.

Despite a second-half rally, the Crimson (2-3, 0-1 Ivy) dropped its home opener to No. 11 Boston University (4-2), 13-9, on Wednesday.

The Harvard men’s volleyball team (1-11, 1-1 EIVA) came up short on the road again on Wednesday, falling to Rivier, 3-1.

The Harvard men’s basketball team’s first postseason run in 61 seasons ended just as quickly as it began.

Despite senior Jessica Pledger’s solid performance—going 2-for-4 with two RBI—the Harvard women’s softball team suffered a pair of losses Tuesday.