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...whole process could have been a lot cleaner, but then, the Crimson women's tennis team will take their wins any way they can get them. They took yesterday's match against the Boston University Terriers the hard way, sweeping the three doubles matches to eke out a 5-4 victory...
Unfortunately, the visiting Bruins had things figured out well enough by the final quarter to come from behind to eke out the three-point victory...
Bryant's long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...
...three doubles matches, the Crimson duos looked uninspired as they won all three by narrow margins. Pompan and Sands nipped Hare and Schaft 7-6, 7-6, Grossman and Beren won a crucial third set to eke out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 over Diehl and Diaz. Kirsch and Terner then came from behind to defeat Way and Ned Handy...
...pair combined to eke out a tough first set decision before crushing the Bruin's duo for the second set and the Harvard triumph...