Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while sinking into the Ivy basement. Penn is still on the road to a national championship. The Quakers advanced to the finals of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional playoff on Tuesday by downing Montelair State, 3-0, on the astro-turf of Franklin Field...
...regional playoff is run on a single elimination basis with the winner of the Division 1 tournament meeting the champion of District 2, the New York state region, for the right to compete in the NCAA semifinals to be held in San Jose, California on December...
...their feet, Ryan got Tony Gonzalez, the last Brave hitter, to ground out. The New York Mets, those surrogates of the sorely afflicted, who in seven years lost 737 games and finished a total of 2881 games out of first place, had defeated Atlanta 7-4 to sweep the playoff series and become champions of the National League. Even Hank Aaron, the Braves' venerable superstar, began believing. "You know," said Aaron, "the Mets really are amazing...
Transformation. For all that, the Mets have never faced an outfit as tough as the Orioles. Man for man, the Birds are probably the finest baseball team since the New York Yankee juggernauts of the '50s. In their playoff series with Minnesota, they broke the Twins' spirit by taking two extra-inning contests, 4-3 and 1-0, then belted 18 hits as they rolled through the final game 11-2 for a swift playoff sweep. The Oriole pitching staff, headed by Mike Cuellar (23-11), Dave McNally (20-7) and Jim Palmer (16-4), is far superior...
Hank Aaron hit his third home run yesterday in the three-game. National League playoff series with the New York Mets, but the glory was all individual. as the Mets downed the Braves for the third and final time yesterday...