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...constantly filled with students expressing their passion for Bulldog basketball—or maybe it’s just their way of unleashing their pent-up anger about living in New Haven. Either way, it is a tough environment for visiting teams. The Bulldogs also welcome back four starters from last year’s team, including potential Player of the Year Eric Flato at the point. The one starter Yale loses, however, is Second Team All-League swingman Casey Hughes, the team’s top defender and rebounder...
With the most reliable starter gone from a pitching staff that posted a collective 5.28 ERA a year ago, the Bulldogs, with the exception of closer Brett Rosenthal, are unsettled on the mound. But speedy Josh Cox returns atop the Yale batting order, and 1B Marc Sawyer, owner of a lifetime .363 batting average, is back in the middle...
...need for defensive stability has been especially apparent in light of the shift in philosophy in goal for Harvard. As opposed to a system last year that saw sophomore Joe Pike and junior Evan O’Donnell share time in net, Pike has cemented himself as the starter this year. His first season as full-time goalie, however, has been characterized by opponents’ abilities to create not simply plenty of shots, but ones of a very high percentage.“We’ve got to figure something out,” Mahler said bluntly...
...Tigers lose dominant starter Erin Snyder, the league’s pitcher of the year each of the previous two seasons,but plenty of talent still remains. Sophomore Kathyrn Welch is back to spark the offense for the two-time defending champions, along with senior designated player Cali Jo Varner. Anchoring the pitching staff this year is junior Kristin Schaus...
...wide-screen TVs. "It was time to use that treasure to find ways to bring our families back together," says Mendoza, 40. With help from the Association of Mexican Social Sector Credit Unions (AMUCSS), they pooled $170,000 and set up Xu Nuu Ndavi. One of its first business-starter loans, about $5,000, went to Mendoza's husband Daniel, 45, whose carpentry shop now employs Alberto and two other locals. Their buddy Modesto Ramos, 33, another returned migrant worker, has used his credit to raise and market tomatoes from a 1,200-sq.-ft., irrigation-equipped greenhouse...