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Around the IviesNormally, Harvard Athletic Director Billy Cleary is all smiles when his women's ice hockey players perform well. And he has had a lot to smile about this season as the team has skated out to a 26-1 record and the top ranking in the nation. But on Sun., Feb. 28, you can bet the expression on his face was a bit forced as A.J. Mleckzo '99 broke the Harvard all-time single-season scoring mark--a record Cleary himself had held for 54 years. Mleckzo made history by putting in three goals and three assists in a 10-0 rout of Boston College. Mleckzo now has 27 goals and 67 assists for 94 points on the year.
Only three Ivy athletes managed to qualify for the 1999 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, and two of them are from Brown. Both Brendan Prindiville '99 and Trinity Gray '00 will be running in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis from Fri., Mar. 5 to Sat., Mar. 6. Gray, co-captain of the team and an all-Ivy cross country runner, qualified for the first time in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:12.81. Prindiville, who has qualified for four out of five possible championships in his three years at Brown, is the fourth fastest of 16 qualifiers nationally in the 800 meters, posting a time of 1:48.14.
On Tues., Mar. 2, Penn played its way into the NCAAs for the first time in four years by defeating Princeton for the first time in seven games. By winning at Princeton, the Quakers also snapped the Tigers' streak of 26 straight league victories at home. Michael Jordan's '00 three-pointer right before halftime gave Penn a lead it held for the rest of the game--the team went on a 24-8 second-half run to propel it to a 73-48 victory. The Quakers find out on Sun., Mar. 7 in what region they will be seeded and whom they will be playing in the national tournament.
--Compiled by David Goldenberg
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