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...long time,” Clayton said. He added that it reminded him of the team’s last 7-0 loss in 2006 at Illinois. NO. 19 MICHIGAN 5, HARVARD 2 Fortune was not on the Crimson’s side on Friday evening. Harvard had to fight not only a top-20 team in Michigan, but also by injury and sickness. With senior Sasha Ermakov stricken with flu, freshman Alistair Felton suffered a pulled hip muscle halfway through his doubles match, preventing him from competing in singles.“We used up our luck in winning...
...lead twice after. that, the last time when Housman beat his man and stepped in for a layup to put his team up 49-48 with 3:32 left.A minute later, Maddox would answer with two free throws, and the hosts would not give that up despite tenacious fight from Harvard.“We always have room to improve, that is obvious,” Amaker said. “I do think that the effort and energy we played with to give ourselves a chance tonight was tremendous.”The Crimson could have been severely undermanned...
...wrestling powerhouse No. 2 Big Red, who topped the Crimson, 34-9.Despite his team’s solid effort in the Friday split, Harvard coach Jay Weiss expressed disappointment with the lopsided defeat against Cornell.“Our job is to go out on the mat and fight,” Weiss said. “But we didn’t wrestle hard [against the Big Red].”Harvard showed little energy as it limped through the end of the dual meet season, and must regroup and overcome lingering injuries in time for the ECAC championships...
...couldn’t believe that we had to be down by 22 points to finally start stepping it up,” Markley said. “We knew it was going to be a hard fight but we chipped at the lead and finally overtook them...
Cantor believes the one lesson the Obama Administration took from his orchestrated opposition was that it must work harder to reach out to the GOP. Many Democrats argue the opposite, saying the stimulus fight proved the futility of the new President's attempts to achieve a measure of bipartisan consensus. Stripping some objectionable measures (like family-planning aid for states and money for cleaning up the National Mall) from early versions of the House plan, they point out, won over absolutely no House Republicans...