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...straight kills to put the Crimson ahead. After the Bears rallied to reclaim the lead 19-18, Ogbechie went to work again, posting a thunderous kill and hitting a low serve that bounced off the top of the net and fell straight down on the Brown side for an ace...
Harvard struggled mightily early in the second frame, allowing Brown to open up a 21-16 lead. The Crimson staged a remarkable rally, capped off by freshman middle blocker Suzie Trimble’s kill that tied the game at 25. On the ensuing point, an apparent ace by Ogbechie was ruled a redo for interference, because the mishandled serve ricocheted backwards and struck the basketball backboard behind the court...
...make a movie about a rock-'n'-roll icon who didn't die young? The fables of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Ace, Eddie Cochran and Sam Cooke provided their own curtain lines: a plane or a car crash, a gunshot wound. Their early deaths at the top of their game built little legends--tragic portraits suitable for filming...
While Schweitzer did not get her ace, a wide kill by the Big Red sent the Crimson to the top of the Ivy League standings and into a flurry of celebration...
...Harvard, considering it had lost all six matches which went the distance in 2003. The Big Red jumped out to an imposing 28-21 lead, but the Crimson refrained from using a timeout. Nevertheless, Ogbechie and Schweitzer led a furious counterattack of six straight points culminating with an ace. Cornell, however, took the next two points to close out the frame and force the tiebreaker...