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Still, the Crimson finished 399.5 points ahead of Columbia, the eighth-place finishers and the closest Ivy League foe in the tournament. The Ivy League Championships take place next weekend at Princeton...
...score fast and stay on the pitch long enough to get to 200. Only one other time in the past 10 years has a batsman gotten to 190. In a career spanning 21 years, Tendulkar himself had just three scores in excess of 150 before today's feat. The closest he had scored was 186, against New Zealand in 1999. (See a sped-up U.S. version of the sport: call it Cricket...
...German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that's a good thing). And of course, he also badgers the sweepers...
Sophomore Davis Mangham and rookie Joshua Tchan endured the closest losses, pushing their opponents to three sets each. Tchan and his opponent at the fourth position were separated by just a break in each set, with Boilermaker Branko Kuzmanovic coming out on top, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Mangham also went the distance in a losing effort, dropping the No. 6 singles match...
Unfortunately for Cornell, that would be the closest it would come in the first half. A series of turnovers by the Big Red, big rebounds by the Crimson, and steals by Matera and Lippert ensured that Harvard would keep a double-digit lead entering halftime. Sophomore Caitlin Rowland scored a trey to procure the Crimson’s biggest lead of the half, 35-19. Harvard would end the half with a 40-28 advantage...