Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record sell-out crowd of 3000 fans jammed Briggs to watch Duke clinch its fourth consecutive 20-win season by powering past the Crimson...
...Crimson(now 7-0 overall, 5-0 Ivies) dominated the meet from start to finish, taking a close first race--the 200-yd. medley relay--and never looking back. The squad now needs only two more victories to clinch its second straight Ivy League championship...
However, Neuhardt, sophomore Captain Penelope Papailias and sophomore Kristina Perkin all came through with victories to increase the Harvard lead to three, 8-5. After freshman Michelle Kosch was edged 5-3, Papailias blanked her next foe, 5-0, to clinch the win for Harvard...
...sight. The hard-pressed New Zealand had a rash of problems, from gear failures to a ripped mainsail, that left it limping in, a stunned 3:38 behind. "Disastrous," said Dickson. "Everything broke and went wrong." Conner ended the week needing only one victory to clinch the challenger's berth in the finals, while the dispirited Kiwis had to win three. If the draper succeeds, next week he will face either his old nemesis, Perth Millionaire Alan Bond and Australia IV, a descendant of the boat that won at Newport, or more likely the lithe and speedy Kookaburra III, owned...
Berkoff's time of 1:55.94 was good for first place in the 200 individual medley and Ritch swam the 100 freestyle in 47.74 seconds to clinch the race. Berkoff and Ritch, along with Bird and senior Jim Kornish also grabbed the 400 freestyle relay...