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...racquetmen must beat Princeton in order to retain the national championship they wrested from the Tigers last year at Hemenway. The match they won the title in last year was the stuff which sports legends are made of. In the final two points of the fifth game of the last match in a long afternoon of masterful squash, #5 Chip Robie defeated a tenacious opponent for a 15-13 victory. The win gave the Crimson a 5-4 edge over the Tigers and virtually assured a stroll to the collegiate crown. The racquetmen will have to deliver that kind...
...racquetmen also have a fair idea of their opponent's strengths from meeting them in a number of recent tournaments. "Whenever our players have come up against theirs, the matches have been really close, and may of them could have ended with either one of the players winning," said team captain Clark Bain...
Indeed, the matels represented little more than a mid-winter picnic for the racquetmen. Most of the team members played one slot above their regular positions as coach Dave Fish let top starter Brad Desaulniers spend the afternoon practicing for the upcoming Princeton match with someone who can give him a bonafide workout--former Crimson star Anil Nayar...
Even playing in the higher position, the racquetmen had no difficulty with a Williams team which has four freshmen in its lineup...
...Mark Panarese retired to the locker room to await the final results--the pressure had proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...