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The Soccer Notebook

Ivy League Crash: A pair of upsets over the weekend started an Ivy league shakedown, with the Crimson left in sole possession of the top spot.

Dartmouth shocked the previously unbeaten Elis, 1-0, to take over second place, and cellar-dweller Cornell dragged Columbia into fourth with its 1-0 triumph.

With a win over Penn this weekend, Harvard will be guaranteed at least a share of the Ivy title, with only Dartmouth and Yale still in the race. The last time the Crimson copped an Ivy crown was in 1970.

Young, But Not Restless: The sophomores refuse to loosen their hold on the Harvard scoring leader list, with the frontfield trio of David Kramer, Derek Mills and Nick D'Onofrio pacing the team. Kramer's tally against UMass Wednesday gives him nine goals and two assists for 20 points. Racing from behind is Mills--last year's leading scorer--with six goals and one assist (13 points) and D'Onofrio (6-0-12).

Across the U.S.A.: Harvard moved up to fourth place in the ISAA national poll this week, bumping SMU into fifth. Indiana--Getman's alma mater--continues to hold the number-one spot, with Virginia ranked second and South Carolina third.

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Yale's two losses last week (to Rhode Island and Dartmouth) dropped the Elis out of the top 20 for the first time in five weeks. Also absent from the poll was Columbia, the victim of Cornell's first Ivy triumph.

Is Goal Next?: After sitting on the bench the first few games, junior Louis Lyons has proved to be one of the Crimson's most versatile players.

Lyons, originally a forward, became a backfield starter when a rash of injuries left the defense shorthanded. Wednesday at UMass, Lyons took over at midfield when senior Nick Hotchkin went out with a minor injury. The move paid off--Lyons scored his first goal of the season off an assist by F.J. Gould.

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