Word: eita
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Harvard's determined tennis team shocked Princeton at first and second singles and at first doubles Saturday in a determined effort to upset its guest bid for the EITA title, but the Tigers rallied to capture two of the final three matches and escaped from Soldiers' Field with a tense 5-4 victory...
Looking ahead somewhat prematurely to today's EITA title showdown with powerful Princeton, Harvard's tennis team experienced early trouble with improving Columbia yesterday before it stormed back to take the final five matches and a 7-2 victory on the indoor Palmer Dixon courts...
That match with Princeton, which the Tigers have been gunning for ever since Harvard beat them, 5-4 last year, will decide the EITA title for the third consecutive year...
...Tigers are incredibly strong at the top of the singles ladder, boasting the two top players in the EITA in senior Bobby Goeltz and sophomore Bill Colson, and have quite impressive depth. Harvard's only chance of a victory, it appears, lies in its ability to sweep the matches low on the ladder, take the second doubles contest, and pray for either rain or darkness to move the matches inside, where the tricky, somewhat harder clay courts should work to the Crimson's advantage...
With unbeaten Joe Cavanagh and Bill Brock at four and five the Crimson should win at both positions, and Cavanagh and Dave Fish are a good bet at second doubles. But assuming Howell's appearance and barring upsets, Princeton should win the match and the EITA title-alone this time...