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...Gone. Senior-to-be Sue Rockwell, the team's best pure defensive player; Joan Elliott, the top freshman scorer of last season; and Ann Diamond, the starting goalkeeper as a freshman for much of last year, all decided to take 1981 off. Three more starters, gone. A week into preseason practice, sophomore Beth Carillo, a projected starter, went down with a knee injury. That's seven if you're counting. Makes for a long paragraph...
...Yardlings account for five of the 11 Harvard starters, despite missing the rigorous preseason week of triple sessions. As the Class of '85 contingent gets into shape, the Crimson, which has already chalked up two consecutive victories in the young season, should become even tougher...
...Crimson qualifies for the Easterns, which it should, the squad will probably have to handle preseason favournes Brown and Loyola of Chicago to reach the final four. Fordham (fourth last year) and defending champ Bucknell, despite losing the nation's top NCAA scorer, also provide formidable competition...
...break tour with a losing record. The laxmen's early 0-4 mark set the tone for the rest of the year, as injuries to key players like superstar sophomore Brendan Meagher left the squad that was ranked 11th in the nation and the first in New England in preseason polls with a 4-8 record...
...baseball team also failed to live up to preseason expectations. Most of the 1980 Eastern League championship squad had graduated, leaving a strong albeit young corps behind, and promising another EIBL title. But erratic pitching and overall inconsistency relegated the team to a fifth-place finish in the Eastern League. One highlight was junior Greg Brown's no-hitter against Penn. Yale's All-American moundsman Ronnie Darling also created a stir when he came to Cambridge, attracting nearly a dozen radar-gun-toting major league scouts and, of course, beating Harvard...