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There's only one word to describe this year's varsity squash team. The word is awesome. Sporting two-time NCAA singles champ Mike Desaulniers and three-time All-Ivy leaguer John Havens, the racquetmen travel to Amherst today for the season opener with a 97-9 record since 1956 and ten returning lettermen determined to keep up the good work...
After taking last year off, George Bell is back to play number four for the racquetmen. Bell made the squad as a freshman two years ago and should be a strong follow-up behind Stubbs...
...racquetmen don't expect much of a contest from the Amherst nine, whom they soundly squashed last season, 8-1. Amherst does, however, have a powerful number one player in Paul Heuchling, who knocked off Havens last year...
...squad's major goal this season is, as always, to knock off Princeton and thus capture the Ivy League title. Although the Crimson shocked the Tigers at Hemenway three years ago, Princeton came back the following year and humiliated the Crimson last winter, 8-1. Fish and his racquetmen hope to change all that when they travel to the Tiger courts on February...
...Fish concede that Harvard will not enter this weekend "on an even footing" with the front-running host Tigers. But Fish notes that the ECACs, Harvard's only team match in the fall season, serves more as a feeling-out process than a full-blown competition for the Crimson racquetmen...