To mark The Herald's last issue of 2006, the Herald sports staff sat down to select impressive performances from the past season.
Best tandem: Andrew Daniels '07 and Rhett Bernstein '09 scored eight goals apiece for the men's soccer team. Daniels and Bernstein tied for fourth place in the Ivy League in scoring. Both players were named first team All-Ivy and led the Bears to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row.
Most prolific scorer: Kathryn Moos '07 notched 36 points for the women's soccer team - 13 more than the next highest scoring player in the Ivy League. Her 15 goals led the conference and were six more than the next highest goal-scorer. Moos finished her career with 36 career goals, good for fourth on Brown's all-time list, and her 76 career points placed her sixth in school history.
Best head hunter: Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie '07 was named first team All-Ivy for the third consecutive season. For the second straight year, DeOssie is a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award, given annually to the nation's top defensive player. DeOssie led the conference in tackles with 110, including 68 solo stops - best in the nation.
Best sweep: In its first meet of the season Sept. 8, the men's cross country team earned a perfect score of 15 to beat Boston and Northeastern universities. On that day, Brown took six of the top nine spots en route to victory. On that same day, the women's cross country team cruised to victory with a score of 27, edging out host Boston University by one point.
Most wins over Harvard: On Sept. 10 the men's water polo team defeated the Crimson 8-7 in a heavily anticipated match. Goalkeeper Kent Holland '10 notched 13 saves for Bruno, and a goal by Luke Samson '07 with 5:29 remaining proved to be the game-winner.
Though the Bears dropped an 8-7 overtime decision to Harvard a month later, Bruno had the last laugh. Brown bounced Harvard from the Northern Championships with a decisive 9-4 triumph in the Crimson's own pool.
Best overtime win: The field hockey team outlasted Columbia 1-0 in an overtime thriller Oct. 7 for one of its most crucial victories of the season. Though Bruno dominated the Lions for most of the game, out-shooting them 14-3, it was not until the 79th minute that Brown's Andrea Posa '08 scored the game-winner for the Bears. The win kept Brown unbeaten in the Ivies and set up a showdown with Princeton the following week.
Worst days for headgear: Kathryn Moos '07 and Andrew Daniels both had hat tricks for the women's and men's soccer teams, on Oct. 18 and Nov. 11, respectively. Moos' three goals were enough to outlast the University of Rhode Island and were a part of her nine-goal binge over the course of five games late in the season.
Daniels' effort was part of a dominating 4-1 shellacking of Adelphi University in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Most dominant performances: On Sept. 29, the men's tennis team defeated Rutgers University 7-0. Bruno won all six of its singles matches and did not lose a set in any match. Four days later, the women's tennis team had an equally impressive performance. The Bears won a total of 18 matches, which included a 7-0 singles record.
Magic in the water: On Oct. 10, the men's crew notched its first first-place finish of the season with a 4:04.27 time on the Head of Genesee. Brown's time bested Harvard by 7.5 seconds and Syracuse University by 8.3 seconds.
Best three-game stretch: The volleyball team had a difficult season, going 8-18 overall. However, the Bears had as impressive a week as any other team in the league from Oct. 14 to Oct. 21. The Bears beat Harvard on the road and Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania at home by a combined score of 9-0. All three finished ahead of Brown in the standings, but Brown's victory over Princeton prevented the Tigers from tying Cornell for the conference crown.
