Harvard Ice Hockey Club Wins Ivy Championship

For the first time in history the Brown, Harvard, Penn, and Princeton gathered to crown an Ivy Club Champion.  The Crimson traveled to Providence to play the first of the Preliminary games. Our boys meant business, pulling out to a 2-0 lead and finishing the Bears off 9-4.  Next up was a trip to Pennsauken, PA where the Crimson outmatched the Princeton Tigers 13-3 and punched their ticket to the championship game at the historic Hobey Baker Rink in Princeton, NJ.  Brown's victory over Penn gave them the advantage over the Quakers in the head-to-head tiebreaker as both finished 1-1.  The Bears were prepared for the offensive power of the Crimson this time, holding the good guys to a 0-0 tie after the first.  In the second, with the Brown Taekwondo Team now cheering on their comrades, the Bears struck first.  The lead was short lived as senior defenseman Joe Smith, who flew down from Boston just for the championship game, answered with a clapper from just inside the blue line.  Heath MacLean tipped the scoreboard in Harvard's favor later in the second and Kylie Stephens stood strong in net, keeping the Bears to their one goal.  Nic Brickley would add some insurance with a powerplay goal in the third and Ryan Byrnes put the nail in the coffin, finding the empty net and sealing the 4-1 victory and Harvard's claim to the 1st Ivy Club Championship.  The Crimson finished their second season as a club program 10-6-2 against fellow ACHA-D2 teams and 10-9-2 overall.

The club team would like to extend its gratitude to all of its supporters for another great season.  A special thanks to the rink guys, Chris and Joe, and to Jeremy Gibson, Duane Reeves, Gary Brown, Scott Anderson, Casey Blodget and everyone in the Athletic Department for their help all season long.