A Look Ahead at This Week in Harvard Sports

The men's hockey team (18-5-1 overall, 17-2 ECAC) travels to the wilds of upstate New York Friday and Saturday to take on St. Lawrence and Clarkson in the final week of the regular season.

The icemen, who swept Vermont and RPI last weekend, have already clinched first place in the ECAC and the post-season tournament's number one seed. The Crimson may well face the Larries in the tourney's quarterfinal round which will take place March 7 and 8 at Bright Center.

Also this weekend, Captain Scott Fusco will attempt to break the Harvard all-time assist record--the only major scoring record he doesn't already own. Fusco, with 125 career assists, is only three away from breaking the record of 127 compiled by Joe Cavanagh over the 1968-71 seasons.

The women's basketball squad (17-7 overall, 9-3 Ivy), fresh off its title-clinching victory over Cornell--by virtue of which it earned a tie for first with Dartmouth--will play host this week to the post-season (and meaningless) Ivy Tournament.

The cagers square off against the Big Red in the tourney's first round tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Briggs Athletic Center, with the semis and finals held Saturday and Sunday, also at Briggs.

All signals point towards a Harvard-Dartmouth final, matching the regular season co-champions who have split their two previous meetings this year.

The women's ice hockey team (11-9-1, 3-5-1) hosts Dartmouth tomorrow at Bright in a crucial year-end showdown. The winner will advance as the fourth and final seed to the Ivy Tournament, which takes place this weekend.

The women's swimming team (10-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy), which captured its first-ever Ivy championship with a 93-47 thrashing of Penn Saturday, left today for the Eastern Championships at State College, Penn. Easterns will be held February 27-March 1.

The men's basketball team (6-18 overall, 2-10 Ivy) is at home for the final weekend of the season. Harvard will play host to Brown Friday night and Yale Saturday night, with both contests scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Briggs.

Although the Crimson itself is long out of the Ivy race, it has the chance to influence league standings, as a victory over the second-place Bruins would seal the Ivy crown for Cornell.

The wrestling team (11-9 overall, 2-4 Ivy) travels to Lehigh this weekend for Eastern Invitational tournament. Although Lehigh and Syracuse should do well in overall team showing at the tourney, the main concern of the weekend will be individual results.

Each wrestler will be seeded in his weight class by record on the year, and--after the tournament is over--the top three grapplers in each class will win a trip to the upcoming Nationals.

The men's swimming team (8-2 overall, 6-2 Ivy) travels to Yale for a key Ivy meet Saturday, in the last dual meet before the squad hosts Easterns at Blodgett March 6-8.

The men's volleyball team (3-8 overall, 2-3 EIVA) face Yale Friday evening, and then travel to the Eastern intercollegiate Volleyball Association Open Saturday.

The women's squash team (6-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) and the men's squash team (10-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy) both hit the road for New Haven today, for matchups with the Elis. Both squads will head south, to Penn (men) and Princeton (women) to compete in the intercollegiate championships.

The men's fencing team (14-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy) and the women's fencing team (10-5 overall, 1-3 Ivy) will both take on the Bulldogs in New Haven Saturday afternoon.

The Week Ahead will be a weekly feature of the Harvard Crimson