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Every one of Harvard's next opponents, quite predictably, set out to make the Crimson's season a forgettable one. But Harvard rose to the occasion on 11 different occasions, winning that many of its last 12 games and ultimately winning an NCAA postseason tournament...
Only the top two teams in New England will receive bids for NCAA postseason play, and Harvard must win the rest of its New England games to even be considered.. The Crimson plays the fifth-ranked University of Massachusetts squad Tuesday afternoon at Ohiri...
...fourth game many saw Tigers Shortstop Alan Trammell's consecutive home runs off right-winged Pitcher Eric Show, who absorbed seven of them in eight postseason innings, and some were impressed that the third time up, when circumstances called for him to try to move Lou Whitaker over, he finally did-with a single. Trammell provided all their runs in a 4-2 victory that left the Padres with no cheerful alternative to winning three games in a row, as they had done against the Chicago Cubs. "Maybe we should start our bullpen," said Manager Dick Williams...
...defray operating costs. After dismal performances in earlier years, the Jazz this past season had its best record ever (45-37), won the Midwest division, and made it to the Western division : semifinals before being defeated by Phoenix. That marked the club's first appearance in a postseason playoff. Last week Jazz officials foresaw no difficulty in obtaining approval for the sale from the N.B.A.'s board of governors...
...Crimson lost its shot at an automatic berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tourney-the nation's premiere postseason basketball event when Princeton edged out Harvard for the Ivy League title by sweeping its games with Yale and Brown last weekend Harvard, which lost to Cornell on Friday but defeated Columbia on Saturday, finished one game behind the 10-4 champion Tigers, who with their title are headed for the 53-team NCAA extravaganza...