Word: lucking
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...hear Mann tell it, earning the captainship was sort of like stepping in at catcher when Junior showed up late—in other words, a timely stroke of luck...
Harvard sophomore Jake Bruton—the hard-luck recipient of a no decision despite five dazzling innings of three-hit, seven-strike-out ball—set the tone early, settling down after a walk to lead off the first and puzzling Holy Cross’ lineup well into his final stanza...
Though the Crimson would contain the Crusaders in the top of the 13th, its luck would fare no better in its next turn at the plate. Klimkiewicz skied a fly ball to the 370 sign in left center that fell just short of the wall and into Potvin’s waiting glove, before captain Schuyler Mann sent another of O’Dea’s pitches to the gap in right center, where it hung in the air long enough for Potvin to track it down...
...heroes of last month’s FM cover story, which followed the Harvard Policy Debate team to Chicago for a smaller competition that ended in brilliant, promising victory. Things went worse in Spokane, Wash., last week, with the bad luck starting on day one, when Klinger and Tarloff were passed up for the year-end Copeland Award in favor of those villains from Northwestern, the pair’s longtime rivals...
With the end of the doubles slate, however, Harvard’s luck turned for the worse...