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Hideko Tachibana at No. 2 soon followed her fellow freshman’s example. After taking the first set, 6-2, Tachibana quickly fell behind 2-1 in the second set. Not to be outdone, Tachibana stole back the momentum while approaching the net with a cross-court backhand that sliced across the service boxes and well out of reach of her opponent to take the game. She went on to win the next four games to take the match and give Harvard its third point...
...court, sophomore Holly Cao, ranked first in the Northeast Region, won the clinching point for the Crimson. After falling behind 4-2 in the first set, she came back to win it 7-5 and then dominated the following one by a score...
...Gridley said. “After I lost the first game, I slowed down a little bit and just started playing more consistently and then was able to build up and hit harder and harder and more winners. You just have to be patient, work your cross-courts, hook them off the court, and then wait until the court is open to go down the line...
Junior captain Samantha Rosekrans, the only Harvard player to take the court against the Eagles in the past, opened her match at No. 4 with four consecutive winning games. Her fortune soon turned for the worse, though, as she dropped the next 12 games to lose in two sets...
...Growing up in Midland, Texas, Green was always the odd kid, the strange child on the margins picked last for kickball. According to court records, he was an unwanted child, something his mother did not hesitate to tell him. She called him "demon spawn," and constantly compared him unfavorably to his brother, Doug, who was three years older. Working nights at a bar, she largely let her children fend for themselves. Doug was, not surprisingly, unable to cope with the responsibility of being a surrogate parent from as young as age seven or eight. He subjected Steven and their little...