Word: doublesized
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Brown had appeared unlucky at first (Navy's run came on a double that Santos-Buch caught, but which was inexcusably called a trap), but the sixth-inning outburst righted his confidence. Brownie gave up one hit and an unearned run in the last two frames, while three doubles (the...
FIRST DOUBLES--Silverstein, Zasloff (P) def. Richmond, Roberts (H), 6-2, 1-6, 6-0.
Pompan and Chaikovsky put the Crimson up 4-3, with an easy straight-set victory at first doubles, placing the burden of proof on Shaw and Curley at two, and Horne and Kirsch at three. Shaw and Curley did it.
Sophomore Don Pompan, whose hard, driving ground strokes seemed unaffected by the gale force, and senior Andy Chaikovsky, who mastered the wind with an assortment of junk shots that would make Luis Tiant proud, carried the day for the Crimson by winning their singles decisively and combining for a straight...
The match came down to the wire, though, and the number two doubles team of captain Kevin Shaw and sophomore Jim Curley had to gut out a 5-4 tiebreaker win in the second set to put Harvard over the top.