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...season, we’re a new hockey team, and they’re a new hockey team. You can never walk into any kind of athletic contest with a feeling of entitlement.”The fact that St. Lawrence has won all seven of its tune-up games and is currently ranked No. 1 in the country, however, doesn’t deter from Harvard’s excitement.“It’s exciting to play against another team with a national ranking in the national polls,” Schroyer said...
...Princeton started off both years with a shocking win over Lafayette, the eventual Patriot League champs, and victories over San Diego and Columbia before losing a tight contest to Colgate. Brown kicked off each with a blowout win in a tune-up game, a collapse against Harvard, and wins over Rhode Island and Fordham...
...what was largely a tune-up for the upcoming ECAC Championships, the Harvard men’s tennis team posted some impressive results at the fourth annual UVA Invitational in Charlottesville...
Yale will win, but the margin should be tight enough to make the Bulldogs reconsider using the Toreros as a tune-up in the future...
...baseliners--but who can't serve and volley on the slick grass of Wimbledon or on the high-speed hard courts of the U.S. and Australian opens. Federer has dominated Wimbledon the past two years; Nadal lost to Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some hot weather helps harden the surface, he has a chance," says tennis coach Brad Gilbert. "Nothing this kid does surprises me." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/ Paris...