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...After playing sparingly last year, Unger, who is also a pitcher on the Crimson baseball team, logged twenty-five minutes and went four of five from the floor. Three of those field goals were lay ups in the second half and included one of the most crucial baskets of the game. Nursing a 69-66 lead with 1:05 left in the game, Harvard beat the Black Bear press and ran down the shot clock. With the thirty-five seconds about to expire, Cusworth found Unger next to the basket and the junior laid the ball off the glass...
DIED. Johnny Sain, 89, right-handed pitcher for the Boston Braves immortalized in a rhyme turned national catchphrase; in Downers Grove, Ill. Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...lead to 73-71 with nine seconds to play. The Crimson calmly got the ball into the hands of Housman, who buried a pair from the line to put the game on ice. Harvard was in position to close it out in the final minutes thanks to a crucial shift in momentum earlier in the second half. Maine, trailing by three at halftime, deleted the deficit by running off a 15-5 run to start the period, a sequence capped by a spectacular put-back dunk by guard Chris Bruff over Cusworth which gave the Black Bears their largest lead...
...Harvard was in position to close it out in the final minutes thanks to a crucial shift in momentum earlier in the second half. Maine, trailing by three at halftime, deleted the deficit by running off a 15-5 run to start the period, a sequence capped by a spectacular put-back dunk by guard Chris Bruff over Cusworth which gave the Black Bears their largest lead...
...high school counselors.Despite the increasing number of students who use these companies, their effectiveness is unclear. Sharon Merrow Cuseo, an upper school dean at Harvard-Westlake School, has been counseling for over thirteen years. She believes that students and parents tend to think that their consulting service was the crucial component in a successful application and that they then go on to relate this opinion to others. “It’s kind of faulty logic because who knows—they probably would have gotten in anyway,” says Cuseo...