Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's only loss came at first singles, as sophomore Mike Shyjan dropped a straight-set match to Donie Wood, but Mike Zimmerman, Mark Leschly, Derek Brown, Albert Chang and John Tolmie swept the remaining singles matches to clinch the victory. Only Brown was stretched to straight sets, outlasting Arkansas' Garron Borkum, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Harvard only dropped 43 games in the six matches...
...Crimson edged defending national champion and top-ranked Princeton University, 5-4, in Sunday's final match, to virtually clinch the top ranking in the nation...
...Harvard foursome of Mee, Gupta, Derek Riddick, and Hiroshi Andrews narrowly defeated its Northeastern opponent by three-tenths of a second in the mile relay to clinch the meet...
Despite losing all but two of the field events, the men rebounded with strong running performances. Needing a victory in either of the final two relay events to clinch the meet, the Crimson won both to get past the Huskies...