Word: bruin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown always stayed in the race to the very end, and Crimson-Bruin matches provided some of the East's best soccer. Dartmouth and Yale featured a few quality players each year, but lacked the balance to compete on equal terms with either Brown or Harvard. Cornell and Penn struggled on the outside looking in, their club-status teams still learning the game...
...highlight of the day was the first singles, which pitted Harvard ace Howard Sands against his good friend and neighbor from Pacific Palisades, California, Bruin Scott Diehl. Sands utilized consistent play and good ground strokes to win the friendly grudge match...
...encouraging to note that today's romp was over a greatly improved Bruin squad that already has more victories this year than last season's total. The easy match didn't drain any of the emotional energy that will have to be summoned for today's Yale match. In the words of Pompan. "Today was encouraging to watch. We're all building up for Yale. We're building intensity...
Francesca Den Hartog, the leading Crimson scorer, broke the tie five minutes later, taking Maureen Finn pass from behind the net, beating a bewildered Bruin defender to the inside, and nicking the upper right corner...
Erica Schulman, playing at third singles, dropped the first set but rebounded to take the next two and the match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. The freshman was at first unable to anticipate Bruin Nancy Stoker's effective drop shots, but began reading them after the first set, neutralizing her opponent's favorite weapon...