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...combination seemed to come together in the second match against Wellesley After downing the Wellesley spikers in a hard-fought, up-at-the-net battle, 15-13, the Crimson took its cue from the Smith squad and claimed the next game with a thorough 15-6 decision...
Because he writes for The New Yorker--a weekly magazine with a most selective and elite readership--Angell's style is more poetic, more intellectual. In "barroom Comparative Literature seminars," the professors of baseball spend countless hours discussing their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which...
Penn State--which easily defended its title--was led by top-notch competitors like Patty Murnune, who loped to a hard-fought first place in the 1500 ahead of Harvard senior co-captain Mary Herlihy. Running neck-and-neck with Murnane throughout the race, Herlihy was barely beaten at the finish, despite running a personal best of 4:22. Freshman Mary-Jeanne Barrett also ran her best time ever, taking third with a time...
After having blown away most of its Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) competition this season by the more than lopsided score of 9-0, it could be said that the Harvard men's tennis team hasn't really experienced the thrills of a down-to-the-wire, hard-fought, breath-taking victory. (You know, just think of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team...
...hard-fought battle with the University of Maryland in the first round of the two-day tournament, the top-seeded ruggers came from behind to score an impressive 24-13 victory. But in the second round, feisty Princeton jumped ahead of Harvard on a penalty kick early in the first period and never looked back...