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Schnitter bounced back from the tough defeat to win at No. 6 singles, extending her streak of nine straight singles wins. Wang also fought hard, losing a close match, 6-2, 6-4. The second set, Wang said, could have gone either...
...takedown in the last five seconds of that opening match,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “Once you lose early, it’s a lot harder to place, but then he bounced back.” His comeback began as Ogunwole defeated Navy’s Tanner Garrett. And in his final match of the night, he took out Oklahoma’s Jake Hager in an overtime thriller to complete the comeback and ensure his sixth-place finish. Ogunwole could place no higher as a result of two close losses in the round...
Just half a day removed from winning the ECAC tournament Title with a 6-2 defeat of Cornell in Albany’s Pepsi Arena, the Harvard men’s hockey team learned that it will travel right back to New York’s capital for the opening round of the NCAA tournament’s Northeast regional next weekend...
...That defeat put Harvard down 1-0 in its best-of-three series with the Saints. One more loss would not only bounce the Crimson from the league tournament, but it would virtually eliminate Harvard from the NCAA bracket. And then there was the fact that the series was held on Harvard’s home ice, while St. Lawrence had made the seven-hour drive to Cambridge. And the fact that the Crimson had just enjoyed a first-round bye, while the Saints’ series with Brown had stretched to three games, two of which involved overtime...
...cushy jobs. Aziz Dweik, the new Hamas speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tried to dismiss Ibrahim Khraisheh from his position as the Council's secretary-general. According to witnesses, 20 gunmen ringed the Council building and demanded that Hamas give Fatah's Khraisheh back his post, despite his defeat in the elections. Eventually the gunmen backed off. In its last days in power, Fatah placed dozens more militiamen in key security jobs. It isn't just loss of power that irks. According to Hamas officials involved with the investigations, the Islamic group has been compiling fat files on corrupt...