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...tennis team lost, 4-3, to a talented 67th-ranked Fresno State squad Thursday evening. Playing under the lights at the Wathen Tennis Center, the Crimson could not contain the Bulldogs’ surge during singles play, as a 2-0 Harvard lead turned into a 4-2 cushion for the home team. “It was tough to lose,” said Crimson coach Dave Fish ’72, “but I felt that to come out of there with a win last night would have been almost heroic.” The Bulldogs...
...game. At 3:38 in the period, Quinnipiac’s Nicole Fiore responded with a free-position shot to even the score, but junior Caroline Simmons answered with a quick score to take the lead for good. Curtis and fellow junior Tara Schoen added to the Harvard cushion with two goals 17 seconds apart to give the Crimson a 10-1 lead. Harvard closed the first half up, 13-1, and 7-for-8 on clear attempts, with only three turnovers and ahead 7-2 on ground balls. “We really picked up our speed...
...last battle, Leonidas gets an enemy arrow in each tit, and soon he's Xerxes' pin cushion. The image may remind you of Saint Sebastian in a medieval painting, or Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. To me it recalled some of the more extreme photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe...
...shot from the top of the box. The whistle blew with the Minutemen up, 6-5.UMass opened the second half with three goals in the first four minutes—Connolly scored the third after recovering from a fall—to expand its lead to 9-5, its cushion lead of the game.The Crimson managed to bounce back. Minutemen defenders failed to see a completely open Mahler, who scored easily off an assist by sophomore attackman Max Motschwiller.Duboe followed Mahler’s goal by ripping another one through the defense to closing the third quarter with the UMass lead...
...game with a 17-2 run on both sides of halftime, after Dartmouth had rallied to trim a initial eight-point Harvard lead to 23-20. Rollins contributed eight points during the stretch and junior guard Lindsay Hallion added five of her 11. The Crimson’s cushion expanded to as much as 22 in the second half, and though the Big Green managed to trim it to 12 on three occasions, the home team was never seriously threatened...