BOSTON – For the first time since opening weekend, the Northeastern field hockey team will be away from the confines of Dedham Field, and will be facing a pair of competitors when they take on some Ivy league competition in Harvard and Columbia.
The Huskies will start the weekend off against No. 18 Harvard on Friday night in Cambridge at 6 p.m. and will conclude the weekend in the city that never sleeps when they face Columbia for the first time in program history at 1 p.m.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW:
- One very familiar foe, and one not so familiar foe
The Huskies will face Harvard, someone they are very accustomed to on Friday night and will then take on Columbia, for the first time ever, checking off their seventh Ivy League opponent
HUSKIES VS. HARVARD
• Harvard and Northeastern have met 37 times in the past, in all but one (1981) of the seasons in program history
• The Huskies hold a 24-13 all-time series lead, though the No. 17 Crimson came away with a 7-3 victory on a rainy Dedham Field last season
• The Huskies, however, have won the last four meetings in Cambridge
• This season Harvard is off to a 3-1 start, beginning the year with three-straight wins over UNH, Holy Cross and American before falling 3-1 to No. 3 Maryland last weekend
HUSKIES VS. COLUMBIA
• Northeastern and Columbia will meet for the first time in program history to round out their Ivy League weekend in New York City
• For the second-straight season the Huskies will face back-to-back Ivy League opponents, but this time it will be on the road
• Columbia, who's program began in 1996, has faced ever other current-CAA team posting an 11-16 record against their CAA foes
• Columbia is off to a 2-2 start to the season alternating wins and losses to begin the year
• The Lions fell to Quinnipiac (2-3) and UMass-Lowell (3-4 2 OT) but picked up victories over Monmouth (3-1) and, in the last time out, Holy Cross (1-0)
• Before taking on the Huskies, Columbia will face another CAA foe in Hofstra on Saturday afternoon
- In the Ivies
• The Huskies are set for a weekend against the Ivies as they take on Harvard and Columbia
• Since the Huskies began as a varsity program in 1980, they have competed against an Ivy League opponent in every season, except for 1981
• This season, Northeastern will face off against three different Ivies for the second-straight season and will check another Ivy League competitor off of their list when they take on Columbia for the first time
• Only three times in the past have the Huskies faced two Ivy League teams in back-to-back games
• 2002 - Brown (W), followed by Harvard (W)
• 2003 - Dartmouth (W), Brown (W), Harvard (W)
back-to-back-to-back
• 2017 - Harvard (L), Brown (W)
Northeastern vs. Ivy League teams
| Brown |
18-4 |
| Columbia |
First Meeting |
| Cornell |
Never Met |
| Dartmouth |
13-2 |
| Harvard |
24-13 |
| Princeton |
2-3 |
| Penn |
1-0 |
| Yale |
5-0 |
| Total |
63-22 |
- Checking back in on the last time out
• For the second-straight week, the Huskies took part in just one game on the weekend, when they took on No. 18 Wake Forest at Dedham Field
• After getting out to an early lead, the two teams fought back and forth until the very end, where the Demon Deacons were able to come out on top, 4-3
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June Curry-Lindahl finished the game accounting for all of the Huskies' scoring, netting her first career hattrick on the day
- And one more thing…
• With the Ivy League's new partnership with ESPN, both of the Huskies' games this weekend will take place on ESPN+, ESPN's new subscription service
• There is a seven-day free trial available
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• Then the subscription will cost you $4.99 a month, happy watching!
