Word: racquetwomen
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...difference in yesterday's match was clearly Harvard's depth. Playing without Staley and Captain Courtney Stimpson--both out with shoulder injuries--the racquetwomen coped nonetheless by sweeping the bottom five matches after succumbing to McConnell and Kelso at numbers...
Lisa Harrison also won for the racquetwomen, needing four games to dispense with Kim Miller, and Lili Pewdefeated an old high school friend, Beth Ringe, in four games to cop a win in the fifth slot...
...satisfactory for Stimpson and the Harvard squash team though. With the opening of the 1981-82 season, the Crimson found itself with two new superstars--freshmen Mary Hulbert and Diana Stanley--who put the team in a position to challenge the perennially victorious Tigers. Since mid-October the racquetwomen's season has pointed toward the Howe Cup, the national tournament, where they anticipated upsetting Princeton for the first time...
...racquetwomen continued this rigorous training schedule (which included mostly running) until they were in shape, and once the season started they overpowered their first four opponents with 7-0 sweeps...
Stimpson and the rest of the team saved their best for the finals against Princeton Unknown to the captain, her teammates swept to victory in five of the six early matches, leaving only the Harvard captain and the Tigers' Denise Galamboy still on the courts. The rest of the racquetwomen arrived at courtside with Stimpson ahead 2-1 in games and under pressure from a noisy gallery, she made short order of the fourth and final game winning...