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...Midshipmen match the Crimson well up and down the field. Navy has a great scorer in Mike Herger (22 goals and 25 assists for 47 points). Harvard has a great scorer in Mickey Cavuoti...
Sophomore Aamina Thornton beat Harvard netminder Kelly Dermody to put the Lady Owls on the scoreboard just three minutes into the match. Moore and Kim Lambdin each did the same less than a minute later. When Gail Cummings and Moore tallied again, the Crimson found itself looking at a five-goal deficit midway through the first half...
Soon the situation deteriorates so far that Berliner intervenes, pronouncing it hopeless. Kudrin smiles. "Playing against Hitech is always fun. As a machine, it's very, very strong. If I play badly, I know it will win." Reviewing the match, Berliner shows Kudrin an alternate move near the end of the game that would have been as good as the move he made. "Hitech saw this?" asks Kudrin, impressed. "That's very nice...
...final match, even Berliner's wife Araxie is torn between wanting Hitech to win and not wanting its human opponent to lose. "He's so nice," she says of John Burke, the manager of a manufacturing plant in Carol Stream, Ill. Near the beginning of the game, Hitech startles Berliner by choosing to move one of its bishops on a bold diagonal, driving deep into enemy territory. But Burke, who has a master's rating, is no pushover. Indeed, he fights back so well that Berliner is worried about the outcome. His concern increases when Hitech suddenly seems...
From 1984-1987, Harvard drew the tournament's top-seed in its first-round match. This year, the NCAA changed the format so teams seeded from 13-20 would play each other in the first round, while the top 12 seeds all received first-round byes. This year, Harvard, seeded 20th, fell to 13th-seeded Trinity...