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...biggest win of the season, a 2-1 decision over traditional nemesis Princeton in New Jersey. Combined with Brown's 1-1 tie with league-leading Penn Saturday, Harvard's win gave it a one-half game lead over the Quakers in the Ivy League race. Harvard can clinch the title with wins over the Big Green Saturday and Brown at Cumnock Field Wednesday...
...landslide formally crushed Harvard's already faint hopes for an Ivy title, which Princeton (7-5, 5-1) can clinch with a victory over Columbia next Saturday in New York...
BOSTON (AP)--The Boston Red Sox failed to clinch the American League East title last night and sent the race down to the final day by losing to the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on Ozzie Guillen's two-out RBI single in the 11th inning...
Embarrassed Catholic leaders have tried to stress the basilica's importance as a bulwark of Christianity. But others say Houphouet-Boigny has more earthly aims: to use the Pope's visit to clinch a seventh successive five-year term in the upcoming presidential elections...
Harvard fatally wounded the Bruins from the Ivy race and mowed down the Big Green to clinch the Crimson's eighth-straight Ivy crown. Harvard also punctured ninth ranked Pepperdine--a win billed as "the greatest in the history of the program," according to Krass and other afficionados of Harvard tennis...