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...most exciting part of the 10-team tourney for the Crimson was expected to be a rematch between Yale's Glenn Layendecker, and Harvard first seed Howard Sands. Layendecker ousted Sands last week at Soldiers Field, giving him his first East Coast loss of the season. But Sands scratched from the tournament slate Thursday night and remained in Cambridge, feeling ill and still a bit uncomfortable because of a slight ankle stress fracture, which he sustained against Dartmouth...
With Sands out of the tournament. Harvard's Warren Grossman is the hopeful challenger to the top-seeded Layendecker. Though Grossman usually plays number two behind Sands, he is ranked second in A-sing let category. And having beaten Layendecker in October's ECAC tourney. Grossman is favored by Harvard enthusiasts for an upset...
...adjustments, every one of the netmen has made it to the quarterfinal round of the singles contest Members of the Yale and Brown squads have done the same, but the Crimson has beaten both the Elis and Bruins in head-to-head competition this season. Harvard brought the tourney cup to Cambridge last year, but Yale has won the last four of six years, so Yale is favored in seeding categories and to win the cup this year...
...doubles play the netmen have fared equally well with each of the newly formed pairs advancing to the semi-final round of the tourney. Number two doubles Grossman and Rob Loud got some experience in the number one spot against Brown last week, when they downed Bruins Darryl Linsey and Mike Benson, 6-4, 6-2. Today, as the Crimson's number one pair, they face Boston University's Larry Field and Dave Katz, a duo who received a fourth-place ranking in pre tourney seeding Yesterday, the tandem defeated Boston College's John O'Connell and Bill Kelly...
...over the Elis brings the Crimson record to 12-5, (5-0 Ivies). Yale defeated Princeton, so the win may seal Harvard a berth in the NCAA tourney. Today's match against Brown though will not be an easy...