Matt Eisen
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Title defense begins in D.C.
Ancient Eight football will have seven chances this weekend to prove conference dominance over the Patriot League and maintain a stronghold on FCS (Division I-AA) football in the Northeast. All but Brown will square off against a Patriot foe on Saturday, though Yale, the preseason Ivy League favorite, may have the easiest test of them all.
Poll: Yale top Ivy
Media experts predict first back-to-back Ivy crown since 1979-’80
In the past seven years, only one team, the 2003 Pennsylvania Quakers, has been voted atop the Ancient Eight in the preseason poll and gone on to fulfill the media’s prediction by winning an Ivy crown three months later. So when the media resoundingly selected Yale to finish ahead of the pack in 2007, whispers of the “Poll Curse” could be heard within the Eli nation.
Ugly 2007 campaign ends with win in R.I.
The old saying goes, “a bad beginning makes a bad ending.” Yale baseball started its Ivy League season by dropping five of six and finished out its campaign in nearly the same fashion.
Elis put up 13 in Boston
Note from the desk of Marc Sawyer ’07 and Ryan Lavarnway ’09: Don’t make Yale batters angry. Harvard’s Game Two starting pitcher, Adam Cole, got the message.
Baseball goes 3-1 vs. Big Green
The old baseball saying goes, “Momentum is only as good as the next day’s pitcher.” If the Bulldog pitchers throw as well in Boston on Wednesday as they did this weekend against Dartmouth, the baseball team should have all the momentum it needs.
Big Green hit Yale Field for four
With the baseball season rapidly coming to a close, there aren’t many options for the Big Green and the Bulldogs: either win the series this weekend or start looking forward to spring 2008.
Crimson sends baseball home empty-handed
The weather again kept the Yale baseball team from getting in four games this weekend, though judging by Saturday’s results, the Bulldogs were probably happy to get out of Boston a day early.
Elis kick off Rolfe action
Apparently, the Yale baseball team likes to keep its fans in suspense.
Wild pitch tops off home sweep
Just before five o’clock Monday afternoon, in what was supposed to be an off day for the baseball Bulldogs, a wild pitch went sailing to the backstop at Yale Field. As it soared, so too did the spirits of a reenergized Yale squad.
Elis take a cue from Elm City, refuse to warm up
The sun finally snuck through the overcast sky Saturday afternoon at Yale Field, but the thermometer wouldn’t budge. In the cold temperatures and brisk winds, the resilient Penn pitchers and batters left the languid Bulldogs numb.