Word: clinched
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Elmuts, Pollock and Ettus won at sixth, fifth and fourth singles to give Harvard a 5-1 lead and clinch the match. Or so an Ivy committee will soon have to decide...
Singles proved just as easy. DeLone breezed past Stacy Vogel--who managed to win only one game off her cross-town foe--at number-one, and McNabb bumped McGuire in straight sets at number-three to make it 5-0 and clinch the win for Harvard...
...prosecution of the ground war all the way to Baghdad. Certainly by Scudding Israel and launching oil slicks at desalination plants, Saddam justified expanding the war aims beyond the liberation of Kuwait. A presidential adviser remarked, "We're almost counting on this guy to use chemical weapons to clinch the case for dealing with him as a war criminal when this is over...
...went for naught when--moments before Shyjan/Mike Zimmerman were to tie the match with a three-set thriller--the Dawgs' Ivan Baron/Patricio Arnold beat Marshall Burroughs/John Tolmie to clinch the match...
Rensselaer (17-9 overall, 12-6 ECAC) currently sits in fourth place in the league--the cutoff point for first-round home ice--and one win ahead of fifth-place Harvard (10-10-2, 10-6-2). An Engineers win would clinch a fourth-place finish (and home ice) for Rensselaer--assuming they beat the Big Green the next night--and would just about put the nail in the coffin for Crimson home-ice hopes...