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...squad, the freshmen brought a lot to the team’s offense.“[Bowers] had some key pinch hits,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “She had some key, RBI-producing at bats. [Henderson] and [Macadam] are so quick on the bases. They’re a good 1-2 punch in the top of the lineup.”“We knew the freshmen coming in were going to be a really strong class for us, and they proved us right,” Madick said...
...confidence in our speed in the coming weeks,” captain and varsity four-seat Joe Medioli said. “For the last 1,500 meters of the race, the most important part of the race, we’ve shown a lot of composure and great base speed.”On Lin’s call, Harvard started its final sprint early, taking the stroke rating up to 40 strokes per minute with over 600 meters remaining. For Princeton, it was the final blow in a momentum-changing race that left the Tigers hoping that...
...usual, the annual series between the Harvard and Brown baseball teams had a little bit of everything.Late-inning heroics marked the nightcap of Saturday’s twinbill, as freshman Sean O’Hara drilled a bases-clearing double to put the Crimson on top for the first time in the game en route to its second of four wins on the weekend. Sunday saw, of course, two complete-game efforts from coach Joe Walsh’s senior aces, not to mention a combined 23-hit performance by Harvard sluggers on the afternoon. But the doubleheader also displayed...
...Gates, himself a former Air Force officer (he served from 1967-69 in the Strategic Air Command), told young officers at Maxwell Air Force Base that the nation needs new ways of thinking about warfare. Gates may still be smarting from the fact that when he was CIA chief in 1992, the Air Force refused to invest in a spy drone because it didn't have a pilot. The same kinds of disputes, most notably in the Air Force, persist today over Iraq and Afghanistan. "I've been wrestling for months to get more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets into...
Another soldier at Forward Operating Base Kalsu in north Babil said he has little confidence in the battle abilities of the Iraqi forces. "Sometimes they start shooting because they heard or saw something, but then there's nothing there," he said...