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While DAN GERKEN [right] and the varsity tennis team took a pair of victories over the weekend--6-3 against Army and 9-0 against Cornell--JIM KUBACKI [below] signed as a free agent with the New Orleans Saints. The racquetmen thus improved their league record to 6-2, with the season finale on tap this Thursday afternoon at Dartmouth. Only Yale and Princeton have been able to take the measure of Dave Fish's racquetmen, who, despite their fine showing in the latter's initial season as coach, will thus fall short in their attempt to defend last spring...
...racquetmen crowned a 10-1 league performance last year with a 5-4 upset over Princeton at the Palmer Dixon courts. This year, through, the Tigers were ready, and they dropped Harvard's record to 4-2 in league competition...
...there were some not-so-rosy stories for the week, too. The men's tennis finished second in the New England Championships, the baseball team went 3-2 and women's lacrosse logged in with a 1-1-1 record. Not bad, really, except that the racquetmen had won the championship for 12 straight years, the batsmen previously had been 12-1 before the week and the laxwomen had been...
...Harvard should have no trouble getting psyched for the match. The racquetmen have gained momentum from the Columbia and Penn victories, and a victory against Yale would mean a shot at the league title and a possible NCAA berth. And as Lundy put it, "Just the idea of losing to Yale is kind of nauseating...
...going to need nine good matches to win tomorrow," Lundy said yesterday. And then 18 more after that, if the racquetmen are to stand up to their stiffest challenge of the year...