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...little, too late.“This team has a lot of heart,” Roberts said. “Even in that last inning of the last game, we were down by seven but we never gave up. We kept getting hits, kept trying to string things together, so that’s a confidence boost.” The Crimson got on the board in the top of the first, as Bears starting pitcher Trish Melvin struggled to find the strike zone. With the bases loaded on two walks and a Shaw double, Melvin walked junior Melissa...
...Scarlet Raiders their first league loss of the season. Facing a 2-1 deficit, the host team picked up its offense when it needed it most, relying on clutch hitting by co-captain Brady Weissbourd and freshman Matt Jones to close out its second league win. Currently riding a string of three consecutive road wins, the Crimson will do its best to use past performances to its advantage...
...order of things was/is/will be his smallness, lying in an empty parking lot, contemplating the vastness of the cosmos. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight (because even at night, all things have rhythm), watching the stars. He was thinking about string theory and a universe made up of sequences and series of vibrations, oscillating like the strings on his girlfriend’s guitar. He was remembering going to her concerts, to her gigs, feeling the vibration within and without his body. His chest resonated with the B string, the little hollow...
...Harvard team was unable to bring its own string of horses to Regionals; the men will ride horses they briefly encountered at past games against Cornell and UConn. In an indoor collegiate game, a team of three plays a group of six horses for the first two chukkers, or periods of play, and the other team plays those same six horses in the last two. Because of the idiosyncratic dynamics between horse and rider, the advantage is huge for the home team playing on its own string—the mark of the exceptional polo player is the ability...
...these little innuendoes go into the relationship you have with a particular horse, and it’s disadvantageous to come to a tournament like a Regional or a National and not have a string of horses you’re comfortable with,” Cissie says. “Our job as coaches is to give [players]…intuition to know what to do at a particular time because they’ve been there and done...