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...President, expanding his authoritative duties to include team manager, fiddled repeatedly with the lineup in a friendly baseball game against Venezuela last week following a summit between the two countries. Ever the prankster, Castro slowly replaced his starting team of retired players with ringers from the country's championship Pan Am Games squad. Venezuela's team was led by President Hugo Chavez, 45, a fellow revolutionary who took office in February after having spent time in prison following a failed 1992 military coup. Acting as starting pitcher, Chavez walked two batters and gave up three runs in the first inning...
Freshman Dan Shevchik should make an impact on the team early in the season. Shevchik is one of the fastest swimmers in the nation and placed fifth in the backstroke at the Pan American games this summer. Although he specializes in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke, he is versatile and can swim the 200 and 400-meter individual medley as well...
According to McClelland, this match is the second-most important intercollegiate match of the year, next to the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships held in December, which he described as the "NCAA championships" of chess...
...Yale match also serves as practice for the Pan-American championships," McClelland said. "It reminds us how different the atmosphere of team play is from individual competition...
...summer was serious as well, however. Nowinski consulted from 8-5 then went to the gym until 9 or 10 p.m. before "we'd all squeeze in the kitchen and fight for the one Teflon pan." Kacyvenski, who is a rare combination of pre-med, pre-NFL, worked in a lab at Tufts Medical School...