After Christine Lin led the Harvard women’s golf team to the Ivy League title and a berth in the NCAA Regional Championships, the freshman earned The Crimson’s Athlete of the Week honors. With a big weekend of sports on the books, The Back Page looks at some other great performances:
Caleb Zimmick, Men’s Volleyball
The sophomore helped lead Harvard to its first-ever postseason win in a 3-2 victory over George Mason Thursday night. Zimmick recorded 13 kills and a team-high seven blocks and led the Crimson with a total of 19.5 points on the match. In Saturday’s loss to Penn State in the EIVA finals, Zimmick had six kills on seven attempts for a .714 hitting percentage.
Kasey Lange, Softball
On Thursday, the junior hit her 11th home run of the season to give her 28 on her career and tie her with Tiffany Whitton for most in program history. Lange wasted no time in setting a new record, as she blasted two more homers over the weekend to give her 30.
Ian Audrey, Men’s Lacrosse
The freshman scored four goals in the Crimson’s 11-10 loss to Yale on Saturday. Harvard needed a win to earn a spot in the Ivy League playoffs, and Audrey stepped up to lead the Crimson offense in scoring. It was just Ardrey’s ninth appearance on the season. The freshman had only five goals on the season coming into the game, and his four goals doubled his previous career-high.
Harvard-Radcliffe Lightweight Crew
The Harvard-Radcliffe lightweights wore special blue and yellow shirts that said “Row for Boston” as the team competed on the Charles Saturday morning against MIT. Both the varsity eight and second varsity eight won by more than 10 seconds and finished their respective seasons undefeated.
Andy Nguyen, Men’s Tennis
The No. 21 Harvard men’s tennis team won its second straight Ivy League title and earned a berth to the NCAA tournament with its 6-1 win over Dartmouth on Saturday. Co-captain Andy Nguyen won at No. 3 singles, 6-3, 6-1, over Cameron Ghorbani. Nguyen, who is the only senior on the team, finished the season 12-2 at the No. 4 singles spot and 16-9 in doubles matches with his freshman partner Nicholas Mahlangu.
Although the Harvard men’s basketball team has not yet announced its schedule for the 2013-14 season, Boston College has announced that it will be visiting Lavietes Pavilion next year during the nonconference season.
Boston College announced that it will also play at USC, Auburn, and Providence, as well as tentative arrangements to play Virginia Commonwealth at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Harvard has beaten Boston College in five straight seasons and won in December 2012 by 16 points. Freshman Siyani Chambers had 21 points, and sophomore Wesley Saunders had 18 points in a 79-63 win. Leading by only two points after a sluggish 31-29 first half, the Crimson outscored the Eagles by 14 points in the second half.
The last big conference team to visit Lavietes was the Michigan Wolverines on December 1, 2007. On that day, Harvard defeated Tommy Amaker’s previous team, 62-51, to score its best win in a season in which it would finish with only eight.
The last time that Boston College came to Lavietes Pavilion, it was to take on the women’s basketball team in 2009. It was the first game of the 2009-10 season, and the Crimson escaped with a narrow one-point win, 82-81, in a season in which they won all but one of the thirteen contests held at Lavietes. Emma Markley and Victoria Lippert had a combined 37 points for the Crimson, as Harvard held the Eagles to only 28.6 percent shooting from behind the arc in the contest.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
CORRECTION: April 26, 2013
An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Lavietes Pavilion, the Harvard basketball arena.
As the men’s volleyball team (17-8, 10-4 EIVA) heads towards the postseason, The Back Page takes a look back at some of the important numbers from the team’s regular season.
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As the school year reaches its closing stretch, many teams are playing the last games of their seasons. The Back Page is previewing all of the end-of-season tournaments for the teams with By The Numbers slots. In this post, staff writer David Freed previews the Ivy League Championships for both the men’s and women’s golf teams.
14 ... Rounds of golf played in the spring by the men’s team, second-lowest in the Ivy League to Cornell’s 13. Harvard played 18 and 19 rounds in 2012 and 2011, respectively.
4 ... Female Crimson golfers in the top 10 of the Ancient Eight. Yale has three, and no other college has more than one.
3.93 ... Score versus par for freshman Christine Lin, who is nearly 2.5 strokes better than the nearest non-Harvard freshman (Princeton’s Sydney Kersten).
3.50 ... Number of bogey holes per round for freshman male golfer Rohan Ranmath, who leads the team.
2.00... Score versus par for the top Crimson male golfer, junior Theodore Lederhausen.
14.93 ... Score versus par for the female Crimson golf team, which ranks 2.69 shots better than second-place Columbia.
0 ... Number of combined tournament wins for the two teams on the season, who start play for the Ivy League Championships Friday.
