Word: clinch
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With a 4-0 lead after the first round, the Crimson sailors went 3-1 in their second round and earned a bye to the finals. Harvard defeated Tufts in the final 2-1 to clinch the title and finished the regatta...
...though Harvard only needed one more point to clinch a tournament victory, it was losing the three remaining singles matches. The last point to clinch the win came with Chu’s three-set nailbiter. Facing Kadiri, who defeated Chu last year in the ITA Regional championship, Chu saved two match points in the second set, and defeated Kadiri...
...Crimson erased 2-0 and 3-0 deficits during its last two games on clutch performances from a collection of different players, most notably Ara and senior midfielder Marc Buan, in securing come-from-behind victories. Both scored two goals against Hartford to clinch the victory...
...first Ivy contest of the season will have an intriguing backdrop since Brown dashed the Crimson’s hopes of an Ivy League title last year. In a game that Harvard needed only a tie to clinch the championship, Brown instead shut Harvard out, 3-0. So it is hard to fault the Crimson if it has any carried-over incentive to avenge for last year’s loss...
...secure, windowless room on the top floor of the Capitol, nearly three-quarters of the Senators awaited him. They were confronting one of the gravest decisions lawmakers can face--sending troops into battle--and they expected to see the intelligence Rumsfeld and other Bush Administration officials have said would clinch the case that Saddam Hussein must go, the sooner the better. Instead, they got the kind of riff Rumsfeld uses with the Pentagon press corps. "There are three issues here," the Defense Secretary told them. "There is the issue of what we know. There is the issue of what...