This weekend, sophomore setter Corie Bain earned The Crimson’s athlete of the week award by helping her team vault into first place in the Ivy League with wins over Yale and Brown. Bain racked up at least 10 kills, 15 digs, and 20 assists in each game, giving hers a triple-double in eight of the team’s 19 games.

While Bain’s performance was impressive, several other Crimson athletes contributed in major ways to victories this past week:

Miye D’Oench, Women’s Ice Hockey

A year after leading the Harvard women’s hockey team with 21 goals and 18 assists, junior Miye D’Oench picked up right where she left off. She scored two goals in each of the team’s first two home contests against the Rensselaer Red Hawks and the Union Dutchmen to help the Crimson open the season with consecutive wins.

D’Oench scored the first and the last goal against the Red Hawks in a 4-1 win. In addition to an unassisted finish late in the first period, she scored on an empty net with a minute and a half remaining to cement the victory.  

Against the Dutchmen, D’Oench’s goals, both of which came in the second period, erased a 1-0 Union lead. The scores opened the floodgates for the Crimson offense, as the team scored three more goals in the frame and rolled to a 5-2 victory.

Patrick McNally, Men’s Ice Hockey

In the home opener of the Harvard men’s ice hockey season, Patrick McNally made sure that Crimson fans would not leave disappointed. The senior defenseman scored two goals against visiting Dartmouth, including a late equalizer that helped the team earn a 3-3 tie.

Nine minutes into the third period, McNally hit a slap shot from the edge of the attacking zone that found the lower right corner. He celebrated with a double fist pump.

The goal was only his second most impressive of the day. With the score knotted at 1-1 in the second period, McNally collected the puck in the Harvard defensive zone, split two defenders, and raced to the other end for an unassisted goal.  

Paul Stanton, Football

Harvard football is still undefeated, and junior running back Paul Stanton is a big reason why. Behind Stanton’s career-high 180 rushing yards, the Crimson fought to a 23-12 victory over Dartmouth.

Stanton, who averaged 7.5 yards per carry on Saturday, also scored two touchdowns. His three-yard run in the first quarter capped off a 75-yard drive; his two-yard plunge in the second gave Harvard a 20-6 lead.

Despite playing only five of seven games, Stanton is second in the Ancient Eight with 563 yards on the season. He has scored six touchdowns.  

­The reigning Ivy League Player of the Year continues to amass the preseason hardware.

On Friday, senior wing Wesley Saunders was named among the top 50 players in the nation by ESPN’s new #CBBrank. The article polled 35 ESPN experts from across various platforms to get a one through 10 ranking of the top players in college basketball. Players are ranked according to their mean score.

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The Harvard men’s basketball team has yet to play a single minute of regular season hoops this year, and yet the anticipation to see what the Crimson can do is as high as it has ever been.

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Success begets confidence.

On the heels of its fourth straight conference championship, the Harvard men’s basketball team was selected in the Ivy League preseason media poll as the unanimous choice to finish first in the league for the 2014-2015 season, conference officials announced Wednesday.

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Some players win the job through competition, others through attrition.

Such was the case for Jeremy Lin ’10, who nabbed the starting point guard job for the Los Angeles Lakers Monday after three competitors went down with injury. Lin will start on opening night Tuesday against his old team, the Houston Rockets. The Rockets traded the former Harvard star in the offseason for cap relief in its failed run at Chris Bosh.

Lin will benefit from a series of injuries that have ravaged the Lakers’ core. Two-time MVP Steve Nash was declared out for the season last week, with guard Nick “Swaggy P” Young already out until December. Journeyman Ronnie Price, who started the team’s last preseason game ahead of Lin, suffered a bone bruise in the final game and is only probable for Tuesday’s action. Wayne Ellington, Xavier Henry, and Ryan Kelly are also out. Overall, Lakers beat reporter Mike Trudell reported that the team will only have 10 bodies to start the opener, two short of the maximum.

Last year, Lin was the first man off the bench for Kevin McHale’s Rockets team. He averaged 12.5 points a game in limited minutes, flashing an improved three-point stroke (35.8 percent) and better court vision overall. His statistics fell short of those he put up for the Linsanity-era New York Knicks, but represented his best efforts over the course of a full season.

In 2014-2015, Lin will be expected to defer more to Kobe Bryant, the alpha dog in the Lakers backcourt. Overall, the Lakers profile as a lower-tier lottery team after being decimated by injuries. Los Angeles has a couple nice pieces in the frontcourt with Ed Davis and Jordan Hill but boasts very little wing and guard depth behind Lin and Bryant.