Word: elis
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Pompan is referring to the match with the Eli today at Palmer-Dixon that the Crimson, currently 5-0 in Ivy play, must win if they hope to have a shot at an NCAA berth. Yale's only loss this season came at the hands of Ivy favorite Princeton, another team Harvard must beat (May 6) if they hope to gain the post-season playoffs...
Adam Beren, the number-three singles for Harvard, demonstrated that the Crimson will be able to count on clutch play against the Eli, winning a 5-3 tiebreaker to pull out a 6-3, 7-6 victory over Darrel Lindsey. Service return was another key to Beren's triumph, as he managed to deal with Lindsey's serve, which Pompan described as being the "biggest" in Ivy tennis...
Witness Gary Pedroni's consecutive first period goals as evidence of the new system's scoring power. Each came on a play where the other Harvard attacks and middles cleared out around the crease and Pedroni circled from behind the net and right in on Eli goalie...
Even in victory, the Crimson had its weak moments. After totally dominating the first half, as Crimson defenders Haywood Miller. Frank Prezioso and Chris Esmonde rarely allow the Elis a shot, and Crimson goaltender Tim Pendergast stopped all but two of the Eli drives. Harvard crumbled in the latter half of the third quarter...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of an Olympic-like parade around the Yale track and a post-meet banquet, a combined Crimson and Eli women's squad competed against a partial strength Oxbridge team of nine women in an abbreviated and unscored nine-event matchup...