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...third-seeded Crimson placed second behind Maine in last year's double-elimination tourney, but this time things could be different. The 27-4 batmen swept easily through the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League this year, while last season's squad didn't clinch the league crown until the last game of the year...
...Harvard baseball team had it all yesterday especially the hits--as it swept Princeton, 15-7, 13-2, at Soldiers Field to clinch a berth in the NCAA Northeast Regional the weekend of May 26. The twin-killing upped the Crimson's record to 24-4, 13-3 in Eastern League play...
...action yesterday. Yale swept Penn 9-8, 5-4 to keep a modicum of pressure on Harvard. The Elis are 10-6 in league action, a game behind the 8 2 Crimson Cornell (86) and Dartmouth (45) are the only other teams with lewer than seven losses. Harvard can clinch its second straight EIBI, title by going 5 3 the rest of the way, as long as Dartmouth loses one of its nine remaining games (a virtual certainty). In an effort to eliminate Cornell, the Crimson will probably start juniors Charlie Marchese and Jeff Musselman when the Big Red comes...
...large Hispanic vote tests his ability to make his "rainbow coalition" a bit less monochromatic than it has been so far. For Walter Mondale, Texas- with 169 delegates at stake-offers a chance to widen his delegate lead over Hart (1,114 to 590, with 1,967 needed to clinch the nomination) and to prove his electability outside of Big Labor's shadow...
Certainly, Harvard's ability to keep the explosive Minutemen off the scoreboard for the entire second half proved the difference. With Greeley and Bambi Taylor double teaming UMass superstar Pam Moryl, the Minutemen failed to pose a challenge to the inspired Crimson, who used more soul than talent to clinch the victory...