Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chang then teamed with junior Robi Soni to take the number-two doubles match against Astorino and Kyle Hawthrone, 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Both teams stayed on serve throughout the first set. The Temple duo went up a minibreak in the tiebreaker, but a crosscourt forehand winner from Soni kept Harvard in the set. Soni then took advantage of a second serve opportunity at 6-5 to clinch the tiebreaker...
Each game opened in nearly identical fashion, with the Crimson pulling out to quick leads. The Maroons would rally to within a point or two before finally defeating Harvard. In both the first and second sets, the match was tied...
...should be the best game of the season," said Piltch before the match...
Unfortunately, the raquetwomen won't have a chance to replay that fateful game which ended the Crimson's 16-match winning streak. The Tigers won, 6-3, in an intense, competitive contest. The Tiger's number-one player, Demer Holleran, sister of Harvard's Jenny Holleran, had no sisterly compassion. She blanked number-one seed Jenny in three quick games...
Sheila Morrissey, tri-captain and number-two seed on the team, upset Holleran--the Crimson's number one player--in the final match of her career. The upset enabled her to climb from last year's 19th-placed ranking to become the nation's sixth-ranked player...