Weather has had a negligible effect on Harvard's schedule so far this season, although yesterday's scheduled doubleheader at No. 25 UMass (26-9) was pushed back to Thursday so the Minutewomen could make up a conference game. UMass-winners of 20 straight-are climbing up the national rankings for the first time since U.S. National Team pitcher Danielle Henderson's graduation.

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Dartmouth pitcher Christine Quattrocchi had a fairly-tale freshman year in 2000, posting a 22-4 record with a 1.31 ERA to earn Pitcher of the Year Honors while leading her team to second place in the Ivies and ECACs-the best season in Dartmouth's short history.

But nowadays, Quattrocchi is mired in a sophomore slump. She dropped her first five starts of the season against tough competition, and her numbers haven't improved in Ivy play. She escaped with 8-5 and 7-6 wins over Princeton and Penn, respectively, in her first two Ivy starts, before getting hammered in 11-3 and 4-0 defeats at the hands of Cornell and Columbia, respectively, last weekend.

To make matters worse for Dartmouth, its field is still covered with snow. The Big Green played its home Ivy games in New Haven last weekend.

Yet despite all the misfortune, Dartmouth is even with Cornell in the loss column and a game ahead of Harvard in the Ivy standings-thanks mainly to a new freshman ace named Lisa Caruso.