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SoftballThe softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a...

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The softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a no-hitter against Penn in the playoff. Hofstra and Albany both edged the Crimson, 3-2 and 1-0, in the NCAAs. Freshman Lauren Murphy, the Ivy Rookie of the Year, set a Harvard home-run record, clouting 18 dingers.

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Harvard won the Eastern Sprints and finished second (tied with Stanford) to Washington at the IRA national championship regatta. Yale upset Harvard in their annual four-mile race, breaking a seven-year Crimson win streak.

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