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...Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “Each of the four ballgames we had a chance to win.”HARVARD 10, JACKSONVILLE STATE 3In the last contest of the Crimson’s four-game tilt against the Gamecocks yesterday, everything finally came together for Harvard.The squad received encouraging outings on the mound from two of its highly-touted rookies, Brent Suter and Marcus Way.Suter got the starting nod, and delivered an outstanding seven-inning performance in which he allowed just three runs on six hits and struck out seven Jacksonville State batters. Way—known...
...took time to warm up early on, while close defense set the tone for the game. Brown wasted no time before using a full court press, forcing the Crimson to rush on offense. Neither team shot particularly well at first, with gaps of two minutes between scores for either squad. “We had some matchup issues,” Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “I don’t think we should be able to be pressed. We have enough ball handlers and we’re smart enough. But we were...
...lead, but sputtered, spotting the visitors a 24-30 second frame edge.The Crimson mounted a comeback of its own in the third, erasing a nine point deficit to tie the score at 28, but suffered a 33-31 setback that put the match in jeopardy. But the host squad buckled down late and drew on strong hitting and a service ace by sophomore Shaun Mansour to force a decisive fifth set.The final frame saw Weissbourd and Jones erupt on offense. The rookie hammered home four kills in a row to give Harvard a 9-3 cushion, while Weissbourd notched...
...sorts—landing a win against Quinnipiac, tying Colgate, and only losing to then-No. 10 Cornell in an overtime finish—before knocking the Crimson out of the running at Bright. Although the Bears had posted their fewest regular-season victories in 20 years, the squad seemed to have bulked up defensively, making a switch in the net (to Clemente) that resulted in two of Brown’s three regular-season victories—and a historic playoff series that will send the Bears to the quarterfinals against Yale this Friday...
Having failed to find any hostages, Qasab and Khan left the same way they had come and met a police vehicle carrying three top officials, including the chief of the state's antiterrorism squad. "One police officer got down from the said vehicle and started firing at us," Qasab says in his statement. "One bullet hit my hand and my AK-47 dropped down. I bent to pick it up when the second bullet hit me on the same hand." But his partner managed to shoot and kill all three of the senior officers. Khan pulled out the bodies...