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...entered the top of the ninth inning of yesterday’s Beanpot opener trailing the Minutemen 6-4, with UMass closer Scott Ratliff on the mound. Although Ratliff entered the game with a 1.69 ERA, each of the first three hitters in Harvard’s lineup reached base, bringing the cleanup hitter to the plate. But instead of Hendricks—the normal cleanup hitter and team-leader in batting average, home runs and runs batted in—sophomore catcher Schuyler Mann stepped into the box with no outs and the bases loaded...
With Lentz standing on second and Mann at first, Ratliff dropped the ball while on the rubber. The balk moved both runners into scoring position, setting the table for freshman Lance Salsgiver. The Crimson right fielder delivered, driving in Lentz with a base hit that gave Harvard the lead. Mann then stole home after UMass attempted to pick off Salsgiver at first, giving Harvard some insurance and a two-run advantage...
...Students admitted to Harvard College are too intelligent and discerning to base their decision on such a small thing,” he wrote...
...class to lead the team,” said defenseman Kenny Smith, who was named next season’s captain at the banquet after a vote of the team’s 20 returning letterwinners. “When Coach was recruiting us, he was setting the base for this program to be in the upper echelon of college hockey...
...tough sell even to many Palestinians willing to jettison Arafat. And while his longtime efforts as a peacemaker - he famously co-authored a plan for sharing Jerusalem with former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent...