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...Crimson is a young team. Co-Captains Edge and Lucy Miller are the only seniors on a squad which includes four sophomores--Jenny Holleran, Marianna Chilton, Mary Cist and Grace Sheffield--and junior Morrissey...
Piltch also pointed to the fact that his players from 8-12 are all pretty much even. Grace Sheffield, Mary Cist, Lynn Swett, and Sarah Bayliss will vary up and down the line-up during the rest of the season...
Playing without co-captain and number-one player Diana Edge, number two Jenny Holleran, number four Marianna Chilton, and fellow starters Mary Cist and Grace Sheffield, the Crimson lost only three sets in the entire competition...
That lesson was vividly illustrated during the Falklands war in 1982 when an Argentine aircraft dispatched an Exocet missile to sink the British frigate Sheffield some 40 miles away. In the next two years the French-built sea- skimming missiles were snapped up by 27 nations. Even third-rate powers suddenly acquired the ability to threaten valuable warships from over the horizon...
After the Sheffield sinking, U.S. Navy brass insisted that newly developed defensive systems would protect the rapidly growing American fleet from the sea skimmers. The Stark disaster has not changed that view. Former Navy Secretary John Lehman points out that although the Sheffield was destroyed by a single Exocet, the Stark, with a more durable superstructure and redundant protective systems, was hit by two missiles and still "sailed home under its own steam." Moreover, since the U.S. frigate was blindsided by a supposedly friendly plane, its defensive systems were never tested. "This is basically a weird exception," says Michael MccGwire...