Is there anything that can stop the Harvard men's soccer team?
(Or for that matter, is there anyone eho can score more than once against them?)
Not in the Ivy League, apparently.
Saturday's 2-1 win over Brown, the 14th straight for the booters, clinched the Ivy championship for the men.
For those of you scoring at home, that's two in the last four years. Not bad for a team that didn't even have a winning record last season.
Despite the weather, the team and its fans were not deterred--practically every starter's parent was out in the driving rainstorm cheering the team on.
Soccer moms and dads everywhere. (Quick, someone take a Gallup Poll!)
But the real action was on the rain-soaked carpet, where the Crimson, in spite of the elements, managed to play a stylish game of soccer that really made the opponents look like the Bad News Bears.
Take the second goal, a beauty off the left foot of captain Will Kohler. Kohler's shot came at a sharp angle to the goal, having been forced to the side by two separate defenders. The shot itself was unbelievable.
But it was set up by great vision and passing by the midfield up the side-lines.
Harvard would take the ball up the field and get swarmed by Brown defenders.
No problem.
What, Harvard worry?
In attacking the Harvard midfield, Brown left swatches of the field wide open enough to accommodate overflow parking from the football game next door.
Harvard did a good job of finding the open men in the corners or the sidelines--Kevin Silva, T.J. Carella, even Tom McLaughlin.
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