The first-round Beanpot matchup between the No. 7/8 Harvard women’s hockey team and crosstown rival Boston University was expected to be a physical one.

A 37-20 victory over two-time defending league champion Penn Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium gave the Crimson its 14th Ancient Eight title with one week remaining in the 2011 schedule.

It appears as if Harvard senior quarterback Collier Winters may have been “Wally Pipped.”

With the Crimson’s Ivy League opener against Yale on Saturday in New Haven, Junot emphasized maintaining a strong game plan as a key goal of this matchup in preparation for the weekend.

The women’s soccer team’s preseason made it clear that Harvard coach Ray Leone had some kinks to work out.

Colton Chapple did not know that he was definitely playing until right before kickoff of Friday night’s Ivy home opener ...

For the first five minutes of the game, it felt like it was all Holy Cross. For the rest of the first quarter, Harvard held all the momentum and looked to be running away with the game. But with 17 points in the second quarter, the Crusaders controlled the afternoon from then on.

In Sunday afternoon’s 2-1 loss to Rhode Island, the Harvard men’s soccer team proved unable to recover from its self-inflected wounds in spite of its hard-pressing offense and numerous scoring opportunities. With the loss, the Crimson drops to 1-2 this season.

In Saturday afternoon’s 13-12 loss to Cornell, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team was unable to swing the momentum in its direction for long enough to hold onto the win.

In last night’s 63-62 loss to Princeton, one of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s greatest strengths this season proved to be one of its biggest problems.