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Scalise also had to be pleased by his booters' strong comeback, particularly in the second half, after falling behind 1-0. Co-captain Cat Ferrante attributed much of Harvard's early sloppy play to Springfield's astroturf which is "faster" and harder than natural grass. The Crimson can forget the artificial carpet for this year because B.U., the only other school on the schedule with a synthetic surface field, travels to Cambridge in two weeks...
...triumph, the booters' second without a loss, was particularly sweet because the squad overcame an early deficit and the surprises of astroturf...
Although the squad practiced Thursday morning on the astroturf at B.U., Springfield's artificial surface caused some problems for the ball-control oriented Crimson. While the booters adjusted to the wildly skidding balls and lack of friction on the carpet, the kick-and-run Chiefs jumped out to a short-lived 1-0 lead...
...still is--the facility that is supposed to fuel the regeneration of Crimson roundball. The new-old arena with the magical, suspended on air, removeable astroturf carpet suitable for winner baseball practice is supposed to lure big-time high school players and biggertime college teams to Harvard basketball...
...True Fan peered out at the summer of 1981: before him stretched an endless, bleak expanse of weeks abruptly and unnaturally empty. He imagined all the stadiums padlocked, their sweet geometries of green so still that one could hear the Astroturf growing. The lazy summer inevitability that has always been one of baseball's charms (the continuum of it, the meticulous formality of its records, the lovely mythic accessibility of the sport's past to its present) now grew disheveled. Local TV stations ran ancient episodes of Gomer Pyle instead of ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise...