Freshman wide receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley earned Athlete of the Week honors by guiding Harvard football to a 24-16 win over Columbia on Saturday. The freshman wide receiver caught eight passes for 131 yards and added an 86-yard punt return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Aside from Shelton-Mosley’s impact on the gridiron, three other Crimson had crucial performances in their teams’ wins.

Jimmy Vesey, Men’s Ice Hockey

The co-captain scored twice and added an assist in Harvard’s 5-2 win over Brown at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center. This marked the 11th two-goal game in his career. In the first period, Vesey netted a shorthanded goal, and he tallied another in the second on a 3-on-2. The North Reading, Mass. native assisted Kyle Criscuolo on his third-period goal. Vesey’s three points equaled the team’s margin of victory in the win over the Bears, and his effort led the Crimson to its third win of the season. The senior forward is averaging a goal and an assist per game so far this year.

Michael Innocenzi, Men’s Soccer

The senior forward’s two goals proved to be the difference as Harvard beat Columbia, 2-0, on the road Saturday. In the 62nd minute, sophomore midfielder Sam Brown played a corner kick into the box, and Innocenzi was able to guide the ball past the keeper to give the Crimson its first goal of the contest. Later in the second half, Innocenzi doubled Harvard’s lead with another header off a pass from senior midfielder Tim Schmoll. These two goals marked the first brace of Innocenzi’s four-year career at Harvard. In 16 games played this season, the Franklin Lakes, N.J. native has four goals, including two game-winning goals.

Karly Heffernan, Women’s Ice Hockey

Over the weekend, Heffernan recorded four assists in two Crimson wins, extending the team’s current winning streak to three. In the Crimson’s 3-2 win over Yale, the sophomore forward assisted on both of freshman forward Grace Zarzecki’s goals. The next day, Heffernan picked up another pair of assists in Harvard’s defeat of Brown, 5-1. After the two weekend games, Heffernan increased her point streak to three games, and she has tallied all of her season-total five assists during that span. In six games this year, the native of Sherwood Park, Alberta has six points, including one goal.

As the men’s basketball team closes out its preseason with a scrimmage against McGill on Saturday afternoon, Crimson beat writer David Freed details three things to keep an eye on.

1. Spacing The Floor — The discussion of how to replace star point guard senior Siyani Chambers centers around his leadership and his passing. Chambers knows the in and outs of the offense down to a T, having run it for three years. This simplistic analysis ignores Chambers’ shooting ability. The career 38 percent shooter has become less accurate with age, but provided crucial shooting to an offense that went scoreless for long periods. Junior Corbin Miller is the team’s best shooter, but is ineffective off the dribble. The returning starters—senior Agunwa Okolie and junior Zena Edosomwan—provided nothing by way of shooting last year. Head coach Tommy Amaker has pledged to create spacing by posting up Edosomwan inside, hoping that he draws double-teams to open up space for shooters. Saturday is the first test of a theory that will merit scrutiny this year.

2. Chatfield’s Emergence — The sophomore averaged just under 10 minutes a game as a freshmen, demonstrating the length and shooting that made him a prized recruit out of Georgia. The team hopes that he can make a leap to be more of a slasher on the wing, but it isn’t clear that he will even crack the starting lineup. His progress may prove to be a good barometer for that of the team.

3. Defending At The Point — A frustrating player offensively, Chambers is a tenacious defender who has improved considerably on the less sexy end of the floor over his three years. His replacements are, in a word, incomparable. Junior Corbin Miller has not yet shown the agility and foot speed to keep up with high-quality opposing guards, and junior Matt Fraschilla faces a significant size deficit. Freshman Tommy McCarthy hasn’t had a chance to flash on-ball defense to this point, but will face a significant adjustment in moving up to the college level. Amaker’s teams are built on their defense—which is often among the best in the nation—and for a team short on offensive firepower, containing at the point of attack is a crucial priority.

The Harvard football team stayed undefeated on the season by knocking off previously-unbeaten Dartmouth, while the Denver Broncos did the same to the Green Bay Packers two days later (albeit in a much calmer manner). The University of Miami tossed a million laterals in one play, while Drew Brees threw for about the same number of touchdowns. And at some point during the first quarter, the 49ers led the Rams by a score of 3-2.

The end of October has come and gone, and despite the two NFC West teams trying to tell you otherwise, football season is in full swing.

That’s not to say that all else has come to a screeching halt, though, in favor of the pigskin. Lack of progress only applies to psets and essays unfortunate enough to be left to Sunday.

Instead, Harvard athletes of all sports are just starting to light up the ever-important Twitterverse, and that’s why we’re bringing you the top tweets of the week, handpicked just for you.

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Around the same time the Harvard football team lost their last game, Lorde had just released her first single “Royals”, The Boston Red Sox were in the middle of winning their third World Series Title in 10 years, New Jersey had just become the 14th state to legalize same-sex marriage, and I was still a junior in high school.

Things have changed. Lorde is now an iconic pop sensation, hanging out with the likes of Taylor Swift. The Red Sox have finished last in the American League East two years in a row. Everyone can marry whomever they want, and I’m living 1,500 miles away from my hometown. The one thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the number to the right of the dash in the Crimson’s record.

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As some teams near the end of their seasons and others look to start with a bang, this weekend at Harvard will have a host of worthwhile games to follow.

Men’s Swimming and Diving versus Bryant

In its season-opener this Friday at Blodgett Pool, Harvard will take on Bryant for the first time ever in a regular season dual.

Harvard is a historically strong team that has never finished lower than second in the Ivy League conference. Returners include sophomore divers Bobby Ross and David Pfeifer, both of whom qualified for the 3-meter diving final last season. Junior Jack Manchester also returns as a formidable force in the backstroke events, having competed in the NCAA Championships last year and currently holding the conference record for the 200 backstroke.

The Bulldogs (4-1) have already competed in five meets this season, and are coming off a win over Iona. This meet will be one of four at home this year, and the only one this semester.

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