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...Evans led off with a quick 6-1, 6-2 dismissal of Justen Roth at No. 6. Ermakov capped off his match shortly thereafter with a 6-2, 6-3 winner at No. 4 over Justin Fox. No. 108 Chris Clayton clinched the victory for Harvard with a hard-fought 7-5, 6-4 triumph at No. 2, while Nguyen notched a fifth point for the Crimson with his 6-4, 6-4 finish...
...held together through a number of fierce challenges from visiting and heavily-injured Princeton (9-9, 1-4 Ivy) and a torrential downpour mid-match that forced a change of venue to beat the Tigers 6-1 on Saturday.In a match where all of Harvard’s players fought to clear significant hurdles, it was freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien who had the hardest hurdle to clear—a mental one. Playing at No. 5, Omodele-Lucien faced an almost unceasing barrage of boisterous cheering from a number of Princeton players, which made a home match seem as though...
...Tigers extended the game into extra minutes and Princeton attackman Bob Schneider buried his fourth goal of the game to hand Harvard the stunning loss. “We knew they were going to come back,” tri-captain Brooks Scholl said. “They fought hard and played a great game. It’s a disappointing loss.” The defeat comes despite the fact that the Crimson played some of its best lacrosse of the season. The offense was extremely efficient, jumping out to a 4-1 lead in the first period...
...They took a really strong 20 on us, and coupled with the advantage of the turn, they managed to get a big enough lead so that in the second half of the race it was really hard for us to keep up with them.”The Crimson fought back with its own push in the third 500, maintaining contact with the streaking Cornell boat and even making up some ground before the 1500-meter mark. As the two boats prepared for the final sprint, the Big Red stern sat on Harvard’s bow ball, with Cornell...
...Many foreign observers feared these elections-postponed twice already-would fail. Nepal is a country still in the shadow of a bloody decade-long civil war fought between Maoist rebels and the monarchy's security forces, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the 2001 massacre of eleven members of the royal family allegedly at the hands of the king's own son. A peace deal brokered two years ago brought the remnants of the monarchy to its knees and the Maoists into the political mainstream, but efforts to further the process along have been marred throughout by political squabbling and vigilante violence...