Word: clinched
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Connections and past success pull Shafrin through in the clinch. Despite the setbacks, he lands a lead in "The Pelican," snags a small supporting role in "Alice and Wonderland," and makes the Children’s Theater, one of only two freshmen accepted this semester...
...winning the tiebreak, 7-5. Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter and senior Eva Wang at No. 2 and Chu and junior Preethi Mukundan at No. 3 fell to the Irish, whose pairs are ranked No. 35 and No. 45, by 8-1 scores. Notre Dame won three straight singles contests to clinch the match as its No. 3, No. 6, and No. 4 singles players defeated Harvard’s Anderson, Chu, and Mukundan. Anderson led, 3-0, in the first set of her match against the Irish’s Brook Buck, but ultimately fell in the tiebreaker...
...Donato, “I don’t think there are any good scenarios when you go to Cornell.” And there is a lot to motivate the Big Red (16-5-4, 11-4-3). With a win and a tie this weekend, Cornell will clinch the first-round bye. Though Harvard is riding three wins in its last four contests—all of which saw the Crimson take more than 40 shots on goal—the Big Red has only lost two of its last 18 games. Since the beginning...
...laid down a nimble bass line, Drake rode the cymbals to high heaven, Jon H. Carter ’06 deftly fingered twisting guitar lines, and Boch stole the show with loopy vocals and wild facial expressions.As good as they were, what the Blanks. needed to clinch victory in “battle” was a little backup. When the crowd was asked to choose the winning band through a show of applause, the Northeastern mob easily overwhelmed the competition. Blanks. hardly stood a chance of winning.After the show, Le-Khac characterized the band as being above the event?...
...face off against fellow league undefeated Yale, the No. 1 team in the nation and the defending Ivy and national champion, in New Haven on Feb. 22. It will be a rematch of the 2005 finale, when the Bulldogs eked out a 5-4 win on Harvard courts to clinch the league crown. But the weekend’s victories—a 6-3 win over the Quakers on Saturday and a strong 7-2 showing against the Tigers yesterday—have the Crimson clicking at exactly the right time to reclaim the title. “These...