Word: doublesized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The match was much closer than the score indicates. After six singles matches, the teams were knotted at three apiece--and during the early part of the doubles matches it looked like the 'Cliffe net-women were about to drop only their second match this season.
The Radcliffe varsity tennis team, playing without the services of injured singles player Diana Olney, relied on its veteran doubles teams to pull off a clutch 6-3 victory over Dartmouth yesterday on the wind-blown Soldiers Field courts.
Earlier, steady Sally Roberts and Rita Funaro created a little stir themselves at second doubles, pulling out a hard-fought three-set victory in darkening conditions. Having lost the first set, 3-6, the veteran duo regrouped to snatch the next two sets, 6-3 and 6-2.
For Captain Muscatine, the doubles victory was her second tie-breaking effort of the day. Playing at third singles, she won a 5-3 tie-breaking game to take the second set, 7-6, after a 6-3 first set.
Playing number one doubles, Reiner and Cliff Adler sweated out a close 6-3, 7-5, win over their Williams rivals. Todd Lundy, then teamed up with Shaw to gain a 6-1, 7-5, triumph, before Reiner and Levy mercifully put the Ephmen out of their misery in a...