Word: clinching
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...culmination of the season came against Penn’s Caroline Stanislawski, when Bajin closed out a 7-5, 6-3 victory to clinch the undefeated season for herself and, more importantly, the Ivy title for the team. As the winning moment approached, she was feeling the pressure, but on the final point Stanislawski was helpless to reach Bajin’s backhand...
After racing to a 9-1 conference mark, the same squad that had finished 3-11 in the Ivies the year before was poised to clinch its first ever league title. With only four matches remaining, Harvard had a half-game lead on defending co-champion Penn, and the Quakers—who had dealt the Crimson its only league loss of the season—were set to visit the Malkin Athletic Center that weekend...
...lightweights’ very presence in the final was enough to clinch the Ten Eyck Cup for the Harvard and Radcliffe crews for scoring the most points in the regatta...
...deciding point of the NCAA men’s tennis opener between No. 40 Harvard and heavily favored No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth, Crimson junior Cliff Nguyen hit a cross-court winner to clinch an improbable 4-3 victory. As Nguyen’s teammates stormed their half of the court to carry him on their shoulders, medical staff stormed the opposite end where Nguyen’s opponent Florian Marquardt was rolling on the ground in tremendous pain. Marquardt had called an injury timeout two points before to prevent cramping...
...Sunday, there were three freshman—Lance Salsgiver, Josh Klimkiewicz and Zak Farkes—smacking home runs to help clinch their first division title...