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After evening its Ivy League record at 3-3 over the weekend, the Harvard softball team (12-15, 5-3 Ivy) continued its winning ways with a pair of victories over a visiting Penn squad Monday afternoon at Soldiers Field. The doubleheader sweep helped the Crimson stretch their Ivy League North Division lead to three games heading into divisional play, which starts next weekend at rival Yale. The defending Ancient Eight champions could not have chosen a better time to find their stride, as the weekend’s success extends the Crimson’s win streak to five...
...demanded a lot of patience. You’re going to hit good putts that don’t go in.” Yale’s course lived up to its punishing reputation, allowing only three isolated under par rounds. “I thought down the stretch we played tremendously well—even par on the last three holes and it probably won us the tournament,” Shuman said. “When you perform that well under pressure, it’s a thing to see.” Next weekend the team...
...second half in goal, but was relieved by Martino with 18 minutes remaining. Yesterday’s win marked Penn’s eighth consecutive victory over the Crimson, although Harvard leads the all-time series against the Quakers, 18-17. Harvard is coming off of a difficult stretch of six games in 18 days, two against nationally ranked opponents. The Crimson will face two more ranked teams in league play this year, No. 2 Princeton and No. 20 Dartmouth, taking on the former at Harvard Stadium next Saturday at noon. The contest will be the first game...
...films with Mercouri. "Together," writes David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film, "they made some of the most entertaining bad films of the sixties and seventies: pictures that outstrip their own deficiencies and end up being riotously enjoyable as one waits to see how far pretentiousness will stretch. In good company, and a little drunk, He Who Must Die, Phaedra, and 10:30 P.M. Summer might cure would-be suicides. There are those who found Never on Sunday charming, and Topkapi exciting. They must have been very drunk." Who, after reading Thomson, would dare say they enjoyed these movies...
...same temperature on the other side of the field,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich added. “I’m sure it affected us, but you can’t really blame it.”Harvard now faces a crucial stretch of baseball that, due to weather problems over the past week, will be concentrated in a three-day period. At noon today, the Crimson will play two against visiting Penn in a doubleheader pushed back after a rainy Saturday forecast. Tomorrow, the team will travel tomorrow to Cornell, where it will make...