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Harvard will need all the hitting it can get to down today's first-round opponent, Seton Hall. The ECAC-New York, New Jersey champion boasts a couple of excellent pitchers. Senior righthander Mike Patton (8-1, 2.47 ERA) will probably get the nod to start, with junior Pat Pacillo (4-1) waiting in the wings. Pacillo fanned a phenomenal 45 batters in just 28 1/3 innings this season...
...signed a contract, the terms of which he chose not to disclose. "They gave me a signing bonus," he said, but he chuckled that his was "substantially less" than the seven-figure package hauled in by Buffalo's, first-round pick...
Hart cannot win enough delegates to take the nomination on the first round. Even in a best-case scenario-doubling his 886 delegates-he falls short. His aim instead is to deny a first-round victory to Mondale. At the convention, Hart then hopes to win over uncommitted delegates, woo others away from Mondale, and get still other Mondale delegates thrown out. "It's now a three-ring circus," says Caddell. "The primaries, the delegate battle, and the rules and credentials fights." Hart claims that some 500 Mondale delegates should be disqualified because they were chosen with the help...
...other first-round action yesterday, Lehigh defeated Loyola, 11-10 in double overtime, Northwestern toppled UNH, 6-2 and Delaware shellacked the University of Pennsylvania...
...polls for the presidential runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and Roberto d'Aubuisson of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Almost unnoticed amid the clamor over Washington's covert-action policies, the two rivals have been waging a venomous replay of the first-round campaign that ended on March 25, when Duarte won 43.4% of the 1.5 million votes cast, and D'Aubuisson...