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Several newcomers made important contributions, including freshman Kathryn Nagle, junior Caroline Johnston--who finished second on the team in scoring--and freshman Elizabeth Sarles, who along with co-captain Beck Stringer helped anchor a defense that had to cope with the loss of several graduates, including star sweeper Daphne Clark...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
Then another sweeper enters from the wings, and another. Greeting each other only with nods and grunts of "Oi!", their broom-strokes begin to beat out variations on a theme, interweaving and refracting each other. As the rhythm builds, the sweepers become carried away and start to dance to the beat...
Dartmouth's Bobby Meyer and Harvard's Andrew Lundquist each received yellow cards in the first half, while junior sweeper Lee Williams sat out the game, serving a one game suspension for too many cards...
...starting sweeper and that is a huge loss for us," Kelly said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to come together and pick up the slack for Lee, but he is pretty much our leader in the back so it will have an effect on our game...