Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Number-two seed Jonny Kaye dropped his first match of the season with a 15-10, 15-12, 12-15, 15-10 loss to the Big Red's Richa Chin...
...five straight Crimson victories sealed the match. While top seed Tri-Captain Jenny Holleran, number-three Stephanie Clark and number-five Brooke Bailey easily won in straight games, the match overall was a disappointing one for Harvard, who as a perennial contender for the national championship, would be expected to dispose easily of an inferior squad like Trinity...
Freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz owned the courts, each controlling the "T"--the center of the court--from the start. Seventh-seeded Horwitz, who's had a "long, ongoing rivalry" with his opponent, Dudley Nostrond, used his newly-acquired, explosive, deceiving forehand to annihilate his opponent, 15-6, 15-8, 15-6. Clark, playing at fifth seed, didn't even let his opponent in the door, shutting...
Moving up a seed from last week, Farokh Pandole started off a little slowly, losing his first game to Franklin & Marshall's Steve Hopkins. "I started off not mentally prepared to push forward," Pandole said. "It was hard to come back and rectify that." But rectify he did--and tore down his opponent's lead, to win the next three games...
...improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...