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Harvard's ladder will remain unchanged. Harris Masterson, who pulled the upset of the year in knocking off Penn's John Adams Saturday, will take on Ryan, and classmate Ken Lindner, who put together back-to-back exhibitions of superlative clutch tennis over the weekend, will clash with Amherst's Rick Weller...
...perhaps most frustrating for Loeb, Penn's unimposing No. 2 man. After easily winning a 6-3 first set from Harvard's Ken Lindner, Loeb dropped the second by the same score. By then, it was apparent that a Lindner victory would give the Crimson the fifth point it needed to clinch the match, and as Loeb desperately tried to gain his footing on the slippery clay, Lindner pulled him from one side of the court to the other with accurately placed strokes...
Finally, it was 6-6 in games, and Loeb quickly ran up a 4-2 lead in the tie-breaker. Triple match point. One Loeb winner and Penn would still be alive. The winner never came. Lindner, playing despite a 100-degree temperature, placed three perfect shots in a row, and it was all over for the Quakers for the third straight year, as Loeb, flat on his face, slammed the ground in fury and despair...
...tension built on all sides, since Lindner and Harvard No. 3 John Ingard were losing at that point. Masterson broke the match open in the final set, beating Adams on his own serve twice. Playing almost exclusively on the baseline. Masterson frequently gave up chances to put away Adams' lobs with overhead slams, preferring to use perfect groundstrokes and high forehands and wait the Eastern champion out. The ploy worked successfully as Adams, also bothered visibly by the strong wind, went down, 5-3, and Masterson needed only to hold service in the set's 10th game...
...There are some unbelievable things going on here," muttered Penn coach Al Molloy, whose squash team had also lost to Harvard 8-1 last winter. Moments later, Lindner beat Loeb, and it was 5-0, Harvard. Ingard eventually outlasted Penn's John Schwartz 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, to complete the singles sweep. Later in the doubles, only the No. 2 unit of Nielsen and Ingard failed to win. It may not have been unbelievable, but it was very damned impressive, and Coach Jack Barnaby was jubilant. "It was a great match," he grinned. "Magnificent tennis." And it virtually...