As a result, the Crimson was streaky, never stringing together more than two consecutive wins but falling victim to losing skids of three games or more on two separate occasions.

The team united at the end, however, defeating the opponents it was supposed to and just barely falling to those it wasn’t.

In tournament season, the Crimson beat up on Queens and Connecticut College and avenged an early-season loss to Bucknell.

But the one loss Harvard could never rectify was its defeat to Brown. Not one of the five.

The Bears defeated the Crimson by at least three goals on five occasions.

But the worst drubbing came in the last match up of the season, in which Brown defeated Harvard by 11 to eliminate the Crimson from Northern Division competition.

“It’s really frustrating because they’ve been our rivals ever since I’ve been on the team,” co-captain Michele Falkner said. “We have beaten them in the past, and we’ve come so close this season. We know that we have the skills and the talent to beat them.”

—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO

Record 11-16

Coach Jim Floerchinger

Captains Michele Falkner, Tiana Peterson

Highlights Crimson takes third at Northern Championships, then finishes sixth at Easterns.