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...contest, Yale held a spotless 5-0 league record, with Harvard trailing one game behind in second place at 4-1. The two teams stayed close at the start of the match, with Yale holding a 3-2 advantage through five as the Crimson dropped matches at the sixth, eighth and ninth spots. “At the beginning, we really didn’t know who was going to come out with the lead,” Broadbent said. Down the stretch, however, Crimson combined close, hard-fought victories at the fourth and fifth spots with easy victories...
...shift into the type of boats we were sailing.” Speed wasn’t a problem in the sixth race for either team. Both divisions won, ending the day with twin runs of top-half finishes. Johnson and Simon didn’t place lower than eighth in their final seven races, while Kovacs and Dolbec concluded each of their last four races in the top seven. As favorably as the team sailed in the end, the first day provided for many of the growing pains. “It was a bit like a pinball machine...
...less than a week. Suchde, Broadbent, Oren, and De Lierre, playing in the first fourth positions, all took their matches in three straight, with De Lierre putting up the most lopsided victory with scores of 9-0, 9-0, 9-1. DiSesa and Sheth, playing at the seventh and eighth positions, also won their matches in three. “In the Friday match against Penn,” Sheth said, “I thought I did pretty well especially since I lost my last match against Penn the last time we played the week before...
...step up from tenth place, where we’ve traditionally been,” said Harvard nordic coach Peter Graves. “I’m pretty optimistic, but we have a lot of work to do to move up to seventh and eighth place. This is forward progress for our ski team.” Harvard’s total of 292 points beat out scores from St. Michaels and Bowdoin, but it wasn’t easy—Friday’s action featured some of the strangest weather of the season...
...final match to take a 24-21 win. Harvard began the day against Columbia (8-8, 2-3) with the heavyweight bout, in which Ogunwole posted a major decision against Bill Beechum, 16-2, and gave the Crimson a 4-0 lead. After Harvard forfeited the 125-lbs. bout, eighth-ranked junior Robbie Preston (133 lbs.) recorded a 7-2 win, and No. 14 Meltzer pinned Sal Tirico in the third period of the 141 lbs. match. Freshman Louis Caputo clinched the victory for the Crimson after earning a 6-4 winning decision in overtime. Sophomore Billy Colgan picked...