Injuries kept Pat Magnarelli, Doug Miller, and Andrew Van Nest off the court last year. This season, the trio of big men is back and ready to make up for lost time.
During the two Harvard women’s volleyball games, a record was broken, one contest required overtime, another ended in a shutout, and a German accordion player performed the American national anthem on Saturday night.
Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. school on Oct. 16 and verbally declared his allegiance to the Crimson football ranks.
Cruising home from Harlem on Saturday, the Harvard women’s volleyball team must have had Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” playing over the team bus’ speakers.
The Crimson (6-9, 2-2 Ivy) played to a tune of a 3-0 shutout of Columbia on Saturday after outperforming Cornell 3-1 during the first leg of its New York road trip.
In a disappointing start to Ancient Eight play on Friday, Harvard (4-8, 0-1 Ivy) dropped three-straight sets to an offensively-charged Darthmouth (5-6, 1-0) at the Malkin Athletic Center.