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...More importantly, the Crimson has a chance to come out of the weekend with a winning record in Ivy play if it can manage to sweep the Big Green. But taking all four games from the division and league leader will be a tall order, even for Harvard’s streaking lineup and recently rock-solid weekend rotation. Dartmouth boasts an Ivy Pitcher of the Year candidate in lefty senior Russell Young (3.38 ERA) and a five-game winner in senior Chase Carpenter, and Harvard will need to work counts and put men on base to break...
...always, Harvard will look to its duo of senior starters, Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, to keep its opponent off the scoreboard. Last weekend against Brown, each pitcher recorded a complete game victory to lead the Crimson to the weekend sweep...
...background is the civilian suffering that has made Somalia one of the world's greatest and most ignored humanitarian disasters. Instead, attention has lately focused on U.S. fears that Somalia will become the next al-Qaeda training ground or the vanguard of a new Islamic fundamentalist movement that will sweep Africa. The U.N. World Food Programme is already feeding about 1.5 million people, while the International Committee of the Red Cross and the aid group CARE are feeding many others. As if matters could not get any worse, the country is on the brink of a severe drought. "The situation...
...doubles victories in 2008, has been Harvard’s most consistent team this season.With the doubles point already in hand, Dartmouth’s No. 2 pairing overcame junior Laura Peterzan and captain Stephanie Schnitter 8-7 (3). Although the doubles portion ended as a Big Green sweep, the Crimson had good chances at winning in the No.1 and No. 2 slots. “Our doubles matches were very close today,” Green sad. “They definitely gave Dartmouth the momentum, however we were in it until the very last match...
...That just makes everybody feel good. As a coach, seeing them work so hard, I’m happy to see things fall their way.” However, the win was not as easy as the score indicated. “We were emotionally drained after the Brown sweep on Sunday,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said. “But we played good tennis, even though it was a little let-down [in intensity] after clinching.” It was a long day for co-captain Dan Nguyen and junior Michael Kalfayan. Both dropped...