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...year, we just couldn’t get it done.” In a contest featuring spectacular defensive plays and extended rallies, Harvard gave the Quakers (8-12, 5-4) some trouble but failed to win any games. The Penn defense stonewalled the Crimson attack. Posting 10.5 team blocks and recording 87 digs, the Quakers held Harvard to a meager .098 hitting percentage. “[Penn] had a really strong block,” Blotky said. “It was crippling our offense.” On the other side of the net, McKinley turned...
...linebacker Robert Balkema. Balkema paced the Harvard defense all day. Five of those 13 tackles were for a loss, including three sacks. “A lot of it was just the scheme,” Balkema said. “We were sending more guys than they could block...A lot of times I was just free. The D-line just controlled the line of scrimmage.” Balkema broke into the starting lineup earlier this season after junior Danny Tanner went down with an injury, and played so well that even when Tanner recovered, Balkema kept...
Luckily for him, the quality and properties of his pet project speak for themselves. What Lath and his team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...
...relentless defensive pressure. Much of it came from linebacker Robert Balkema, who had 13 total tackles—10 solo—in addition to three of Harvard’s eight total sacks.“A lot of times we were sending more guys than they could block, and the D-line was eating up blocks, so a lot of times I was just free,” Balkema said. “The D-line basically controlled the line of scrimmage and we were sacking the quarterback without pressure a lot of times, so it made...
...second game, the team also showed some fight. Beginning the frame down 1-6, the Crimson battled its way back throughout the game. Jump serving effectively, Mahon served eight straight points to give the team a 26-25 lead. After Harvard fell behind 29-28, a huge block from sophomores Mimi Hanley and Suzie Trimble tied it up at 29. But the Crimson fell just short of victory, as the Tigers pulled away with a 31-29 win. The second game was a welcome shift from the first in which Princeton dominated the struggling Crimson. “The first...