Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record, outstanding pitching--especially from ace Roz Brayton--and a team average over .300 on the season. All that got them was a 4-1 loss to powerhouse Southern Cal in the first game and a 7-0 drubbing by Georgia Southern in the double elimination tourney. Harvard tied a World Series futility record for scoring only a single run in two appearances. The Crimson bats managed a mere seven hits total...
...going to Omaha aren't quite as impressive as last season's, when the team breezed through its schedule. The 1974 squad had to struggle from a mediocre start and a mid-season hitting slump to take the Eastern League title to earn a berth in the NCAA district tourney and the District I crown to earn a spot in the Series...
Women's ace Kerry Melville once asked me, "Aown't yew tayken enoof pictchahs of me, sonny?" at a Slims tourney at Squantum last year. I had been focusing on her for four games in one second-round match, and she was winning. A thin-skinned grouch, Melville has been on the verge of winning major tournaments for years but has never been able to break a final round block against the hierarchy of the game: King and Court...
Harvard's two rivals remain something of a mystery, as the squad has not faced either team this season. Providence, under the piloting of Alex Nahigian, who also is an assistant football coach under Joe Restic, went up against Harvard in the district tourney last year. The Crimson eliminated the Friars and won the tournament with an 8-1 drubbing at Soldiers Field...
...past years, the Yankee conference winner was not selected to the tournament. Rhode Island, which copped the Yankee crown, did not have as good an overall record as New Hampshire, so the selection committee, headed by Northeastern coach John "Tinker" connelly, decided to bring the Wildcats into the tourney...