Word: chenge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team--now 9-4 on the season--made a surprising find Saturday at a tri-match in Providence. While defeating Boston College, 15-10, 10-15, 15-6, and edging Brown, 8-15, 16-14, 15-11, the Crimson spikers discoverd an able back-up to starting setter Margaret Cheng...
Freshman Kathy Yanelli filled in for Cheng, whose bout with the flu forced her to sit out four of Harvard's six games. Yanelli, who had been playing solely in the back court until Saturday's matches, began practicing as a setter just three days prior to her debut up front. Nonetheless, her ability and United States Volleyball League experience compensated for her newness to the college game...
Yanelli's exhaustion showed in her team's overall play as Harvard spotted Brown the first game, 8-15. Altman called on Cheng, and the flu-stricken junior responded, lifting the team to a narrow 16-14 second-game victory...
These rough and tumble practices suit a team that, Cheng says, is "high in enthusiasm but low on experience. We are a young team, and we have some problems with team cohesion--moving together and setting up plays--when we meet up with really stiff competition, but its nothing that can't be improved through practice, experience, and enthusiasm...
...effusive Cheng says she's not discouraged by the relative lack of funding and interest given to women's volleyball at Harvard and all over the East, saying, "Eastern volleyball is an up and coming sport, but not yet as good as volleyball in the West. The game is basically the same, the same things are tried, practiced, and executed--its just that more people play in the West and they start younger...