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Senior second baseman Faiz Shakir was thrown out at home plate yesterday while attempting to score from second on a two-out single in the eighth inning. The play, which came at a rare point when the Crimson hit Rice’s Steven Herce hard, effectively ended any hope of a history-making upset as Harvard fell to Rice 8-3 in the opening game of the double-elimination NCAA Regionals...
With one out in the eighth inning and Harvard down 6-1, pinch-hitter Andrew Brunswick worked a four-pitch walk off Herce, who had cruised through the game’s first six innings. Sophomore Bryan Hale’s groundout moved Brunswick to second, and freshman Ian Wallace’s double brought him home to cut the deficit to 6-2. Shakir, the next batter, reached first on a catcher’s interference call, and senior Mark Mager singled in another run to make the score...
...Eighth-graders at Renaissance perform below state and district averages--69% failed the statewide math test, compared with 54% in the Boston school district and 31% in the state; in English, 22% of Renaissance eighth-graders failed, compared with 20% citywide and 8% statewide. Edison spokesman Adam Tucker concedes that "none of us felt test scores were improving as quickly as they should" at Renaissance, but he says that a dual-management structure in which the school principal reported to both Edison and a local charter-school board was restricting. He says that Renaissance is an anomaly for Edison, which...
...that time that had anything to do with my life," says Shields. "It was all about leaving your home, leaving your children, not having children. So I started writing the kinds of books that I wanted to read." Her first novel appeared when she was 40. With her eighth she accomplished that rarest of literary feats, a crossover hit: The Stone Diaries was an international best seller and a critical triumph, winning the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
Junior Helena Ronner, who won the Heptagonal triple jump title last week, was the only other Harvard woman with a point-scoring performance this weekend. She took eighth in the triple jump at 12.38 meters...