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After seeing a rough cut of the film and reading the script, we can say that Clones seems poised to get the series back on track--and provide an exhilarating two hours of serious fun. It should easily ace the last movie in chills (when two icky centipedal creatures called "kouhuns" crawl into the sleeping Padme's bed) and thrills (when Anakin and Obi-Wan drag-race the changeling Zam Wessel across Coruscant's wonderfully varied urban nightscape...
With the Harvard baseball team trailing 6-3 after seven innings in the second game of a crucial doubleheader against Brown Saturday, Crimson ace Ben Crockett trotted back onto the diamond...
...season long the Crimson has been led by its pitching staff, including staff ace Ben Crockett. Crockett, a senior, is a genuine major league prospect, with every one of his starts attracting legions of professional baseball scouts. In addition to Crockett, Nyweide (3-2, 4.54 ERA) and Madhu Satanarayana (1-3, 5.29) have consistently given the Crimson needed quality starts. Harvard is currently third in the league in ERA, and Crimson pitchers have been able to keep Harvard in games all season...
Sheffield, then a junior, had not been one of the more heavily used Crimson pitchers that year. On a team with such standouts as classmates Ben Crockett and Justin Nyweide along with stalwart staff ace John Birtwell ’01, Sheffield saw limited action. He threw in seven games last year and started only one, picking up a win and a save in 16 total innings. Sheffield had seen even less time the previous season...
...often happens when Harvard ace captain Ben Crockett takes the mound, a line of radar guns behind home plate clocked his every pitch during Saturday’s nightcap. But on this occasion, the most impressive performer pitched for the other team...