Word: championships
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Mulvehal, a junior, sparked the Crimson to its strong finish over the weekend. The team's number-six singles player finished the "C" singles championship with a 4-6, 7-6, 6-2 victory in the finals over Cynthia Mitchell from William & Mary...
Mulvehal combined with Austrian to win their doubles bracket with a 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 win in the finals over Brenda Hacker and Gretchen Doninger of Indiana. The Crimson's number-three doubles team, coming off a big championship victory in the Syracuse Invitational last month, survived split sets in three of their four matches in the tournament...
...Minnesota's powerful third baseman, imagines there will be five characters in these play-offs, counting the Homerdome. "The dome is home, man," he says slyly. "We use it." As discombobulating to strangers as Fenway's great Wall, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome has seen 56 Twins victories this championship season, their first in 17 years. "There are tricky little things about it," reports Gaetti, one of three Twins with 30 homers (and Outfielder Kirby Puckett has 28). "Balls bounce funny in certain spots. They get lost in the ceiling and die in the rightfield corner...
...lively life in baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like this." When the earth moved...
...reason to be hopeful. The Red Sox won the American League Championship last year and were one measly strike away from winning the World Series. One strike. At an early game this year, the Fenway Park crowd chose instead to remember the play-offs, in particular the fifth game in which centerfielder Dave Henderson hit a two-strike, two-out home run to steal the series from the California Angels. The bleachers rocked with chants of "Game Number 5!" until Henderson smiled and doffed...