
A Cabot player leaps for a layup over Eliot captain Paul F. Gilligan ’05 at Lavietes Pavilion last night. Cabot won the A-League tournament, beating Eliot 74-64.
Not many events at Harvard draw House Masters, tutors and throngs of fans. Even fewer of them net a moose.
But Masters, students and mascots were all on hand at Lavietes Pavilion last night for the Intramural Basketball Championships, which consisted of the finals of three divisions: Women’s, B-League and A-League.
The Women’s division final tipped off an evening of basketball and spirit that did not stop until the final whistle concluded the A-League game. At the night’s end, Kirkland won the Women’s final, Dunster won the B-League game and Cabot earned the top spot in the A-League division.
“Intramural sports has always been something that has drawn the entire House community together,” said Voltaire R. Sterling, a resident tutor in Cabot. He pulled for his team, playing in the A-League finals, from amidst a loud cheering section.
“The intramural season is something that the residents look forward to, especially basketball. On the e-mail list, when there’s a game, it’s definitely highly publicized,” he said.
The Women’s matchup, the earliest of the finals, pitted the teams—and fans—from Kirkland and Dunster against each other.
Four spirited women spelled out “K-HOUSE” with six sheets of paper, while
Kirkland House Co-Masters Tom and Verena Conley stood alongside them shouting.
At the other end of the bleachers, Dunster’s partisans cheered like animals.
Resident tutor Ryan C. Hickox dressed up as the Dunster moose and pranced along the sidelines. “We just want to win the big prize,” he said.
“That’s all there is to it, really.”
But mid-sentence, Hickox lost his moose head to a Kirkland fan who snatched it from his hand.
“Now we know who to go get after the game,” Hickox said after he recovered the moose head.
Kirkland, who overcame Leverett in the semifinals earlier this month, beat Dunster 38-32 last night.
After the Women’s game, the stands began to fill for the B-League final, which featured a mix of recreational and out-of-season varsity athletes.
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