Word: ricks
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Phills was not the only Crimson wrestler to earn a celebration on this Saturday afternoon, only the last. After an Eli forfeit to Rick Beller, the Harvard 118 lb. wrestler, Harvard showed its power in the lower weight classes by winning the first three matches to build the 17-0 lead. Senior co-captain Rick Kief started with a 7-4 victory over a strong Yale 126 pounder, Eric Sorkin. With quick, aggressive takedowns, demonstrating the toughness and muscle that has earned him the nickname, "Beef," Kief set the stage for the successful...
Against a weak Brown team, Harvard again started strong, building a 25-0 lead before Coach Lee let his freshmen have a chance. When the debacle was over, Harvard had scored a 37-14 victory. In his first chance of the day to wrestle, Rick Beller pinned his opponent in just 2:36, and Phills added his second pin of the day at 4:34 to give Harvard a quick twelve points. Cimmarrusti also scored a pin, this one in 4:51, as some of the varsity wrestlers readied themselves for the Eastern Championships next week at Princeton...
...next six weeks, Sullivan and new manager Ralph Houk--who still had Lynn, Fisk, and Rick Burleson penciled in his opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...
Against the Huskies, Harvard was again hampered by early losses. But Rick Kief and Andy McNerney avenged their UMass losses with victories at 134 and 142 and the Crimson never looked back...
Three minutes later, when Rick Benson knocked a Fusco pass out of the air for Gary Martin to shove home, the rambunctious Eli's abandoned hockey in favor of Roller Derby, with Dan Polizani--three trips to the box in the last two periods--playing Charlie O'Connell...