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The Year in Review

March 13: The ice hockey team holds off Providence, 4-1, for its first ECAC title since 1971.

March 18-19: The icemen top Michigan St., 6-5, 3-3, to advance to the NCAA Final Four.

April 3: The Crimson loses to Wisconsin, 6-2, in the NCAA final. Mark Fusco becomes the first Eastern hockey player to win the Hobey Baker Award.

May 7-8: The baseball team sweeps doubleheaders from Cornell and Army to move into first place in the EIBL.

May 15: A last-minute Linda Bevelander goal helps UMass eliminate the women's lacrosse team, 7-6, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

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May 22: The batsmen clinch the EIBL title with a 10-1 win over Navy. The are later eliminated in the NCAA Northeast regional.

July 4: Mark Fusco is named to the 1984 U.S. Olympic team.

July 28: Mike Stenhouse, who graduated in 1980, plays for the Montreal Expos, becoming the first Harvard graduate in the major leagues in eight years.

1983-84

November 12: The football team shuts out Penn, 28-0, to move into a tie for first place in the Ivy League.

November 19: The gridders capture the 100th Game from Yale, 16-7, to clinch a tie of the Ivy title. Freshman Margaret Cimino is critically injured when she is hit by a falling goalpost dragged down by jubilant Crimson fans.

December 2: The men's swimming team loses to Navy, 61-52, breaking its 32-match winning streak.

February 1: Sports finally hits the back page of The Crimson.

February 8: The men's basketball team almost upsets Duke, succumbing, 89-86, in Briggs Cage.

February 24-25: The cagers top Yale, 80-72, to enter a three-way tie the Ivy League lead. They follow with a win over Brown, 80-76.

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