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...first surprise came in the contest between first seed Howard Sands and Eli Glenn Layendecker Sands, currently ranked eighth in the nation, faced 39th-ranked Layendecker, an opponent who had beaten him earlier this year...
Layendecker took the first set, 7-5, but Sands came back, moving quickly with his feet and making some of the much-needed clutch shots past the Eli's reaching arms at the net. Just when Layendecker seemed to settle back and enjoy himself. Sands made it very hard for him to do so. The Eli became frustrated and began a process of self-castigation, which was punctuated with tosses of his tennis racquet towards the ground. Sands' play continued to thrive although the Eli continually challenged him. In a tiebreaker set. Sands took control...
...inspired by Sands' play, the Eli then shifted his strategy his selfdirected cruelty to shots more dangerous to Sands. He became particularly fond of a frontcourt cross forehand drop that would roll immediately out of Sands' reach. His serve, though inconsistent, also plagued the recently unchallenged Crimson first seed. He got down in the third set early as Layendecker won, 6-4. And it was Sands who threw his racquet...
...took two spectacular individual efforts by attack man Rob Hawley to get the Crimson going after intermission less than three going after intermission. Less than three minutes into the third period, Hawley carried the ball from behind the net and with Eli defense-man Rob Anderson hacking at him, whipped one past goalie Dan Liu from a sharp angle...
With the rain falling harder, the Elis had the most trouble moving the ball as the game progressed, the Crimson pressure increased. Steve Voelkel and Follows scored in the late going. Gigantic Yale defender Jim MacLaren tackled Chris Pujols while the 5-ft., 9-in attackman tried to nab a bouncing ball in front of an open Eli net late in the third quarter...