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...divers have been the strongest part of the Crimson squad this season, and the spectacular high board performances in both Friday's meet with Maine and Saturday's contest were just another chapter in a banner season for this group. All four Crimson divers--Toal, Schramm, Greacen and Craig Gavin--are headed not only to the Easterns, where they will be the key to Harvard's chances for victory, but also to the NCAA championships at Long Beach, Ca. in late March...
Enter Craig Gavin, a sophomore diver from Anchorage, Alaska, who will probably be remembered more for hitting his foot on the three-meter board in the later competition than the way he took second place in the one-meter event...
Leading Princeton's Jim Malot by less than a point going into the final round of dives, Gavin watched as Malot contorted an inward one-and-a-half almost flawlessly for a 7,7 1/2, and 8 from the judges and lodged himself in second place...
...Gavin was almost obnoxious in his coolness ("I felt like I was gonna kill it," he said afterwards) as he ripped of an inward one-and-a-half of his own with superior scores to cop the first of two board sweeps for the Crimson...
...place where an upset could hurt the most would be in the diving competition. Harvard has a decided edge here, with four consistently strong springboard specialists in Mike Toal, Steve Schramm, Jamie Greacen, and Craig Gavin. It would be unwise to think of anything less than a sweep for Harvard on both the one and three-meter boards, unless Tiger Paul Malot, who Berizzi calls "the unknown quantity," puts in an adrenaline-fueled performance to place in either event...