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The Year in Review

March 2: Cornell tops the cagers, 76-67, in front of a record Briggs Cage crowd of 2850 people, ending the Crimson's hopes for its first-ever Ivy title.

March 13: Joe Carrabino is named Player of the Year in Ivy League men's basketball.

March 14: The women's water polo team crushes B.C., 22-0, in its first varsity game.

May 6: The men's rugby club wins its first national championship, 12-4, over the University of Colorado.

May 9: The baseball squad claims the EIBL title with a sweep of Princeton, earning a berth in the NCAA regional tourney.

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May 12: Pamela Meryl scores a goal with 1:07 remaining in the NCAA quarterfinals, leading UMass over the women's lacrosse team, 5-4.

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October 13: The field hockey team upends Cornell, 1-0, ending a six-game scoreless skein.

November 10: Penn crushes the football team, 38-7, to end the Crimson's Ivy title hopes. UMass tops the women's soccer team, 1-0, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

November 25: The men's soccer team stuns UConn, 1-0, in the NCAA tournament.

December 2: The booters are topped, 2-0, by UCLA in the NCAA quarterfinals.

January 6: Two streaks are broken on the same day. The men's hockey team has its 10-game winning streak ended and the men's basketball team loses for the first time in nine games.

January 11-12: The men's basketball team sweeps Penn and Princeton on the road--it is only the second sweep of the "Lost Weekend" in Ivy League history.

January 30: The men's tennis team stuns seventh-ranked Trinity, 5-3, at the National Indoor Championships.

February 2-3: The ski team wins its first intercollegiate carnival in 22 years, capturing the Bowdoin Carnival.

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