The men's hockey team escapes a late-game rally from St. Lawrence and wins, 6-5, in Canton, N.Y. The victory gives the Crimson the regular-season ECAC title.

The women's swimming team does what it had always planned to do. It wins the Eastern Championships. No problem. The Crimson finishes with 726 points--over a hundred more than second-place Penn State. "Winning the championship wasn't as exciting as watching it," Costin Scalise says.

The men's squash team keeps doing what it has done 68 straight times previously--namely, win. The racquetmen take out Yale, 6-3, and earn their sixth-straight nine-man and Ivy League championships. "This team didn't have the talent of the past four or five teams," Harvard Assistant Coach John Anz says. "But they worked hard all year to get at the level of past teams."

Not to be outdone, the women's squash team bumps off Princeton, 8-1, to capture the Ivy League and national nine-woman titles.

The women's hockey team captures the Ivy League tournament (again, for the second straight year) with a 4-3 victory over Princeton. The Crimson's comment: "The Harvard women's hockey team is very good at repeating things."

March 5, 1988: The men's hockey team gets past RPI in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament with a 6-4 victory in the second game of the series. Andy Janfaza skips a shot off RPI defenseman Rob Schena's leg and into the net. A favorite expression of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary comes to mind: "I'd rather be lucky than good."

The women's basketball team wraps up a share of the Ivy title with a 71-60 scorching of Brown. Sarah Duncan throws in 17 points, grabs 13 rebounds, dishes out five assists, blocks three shots and makes two steals. She also plays tuba in the band at halftime...

The men's basketball team ends its season on a typically disappointing note. The cagers fall to Brown, 103-101. Crimson Coach Peter Roby turns all colors of the rainbow before he blurts out, "The toughest thing about this loss is that you have to think about it all year. It's the last game. You can't go out there in a couple of days to get that bad taste out of your mouth."

March 11, 1988: "It was over before it was over," The Crimson writes. And it was. The men's hockey team never gets involved in its ECAC semifinal game against Clarkson and falls, 6-4. This is the second time in three years that Clarkson beats Harvard in the ECAC semis.

Harvard faces a consolation game it wants no part of.

March 12, 1988: The icemen turn the consolation game against Vermont into a scoring fest. Harvard captures a 7-1 victory and earns a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson writes, "It was the kind of game Harvard Coach Bill Cleary could wrap up and stuff in a capsule." If only he had the wrapping paper to do it.

St. Lawrence, meanwhile, captures the league crown.

March 19, 1988: "Michigan State Finishes Harvard" the headline in the Crimson reads. The icemen melt in the second game of a total-goals series with the Spartans.

"We just couldn't buy a goal," Cleary says, showing empty pockets.

April 16, 1988: Over the weekend, the baseball team captures three of four games against Brown and Yale. Freshman Aron Allen goes 10-for-12 on the weekend. The pitching is solid. Harvard seems destined to play a role in the EIBL pennant race.