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Junior reliver Derek Lennon had to battle in the ninth after he surrendered a one-out priple to Rhode Island shortstop Mike LaBarbera, but he coaxed Conney into a groundout and got Chamsarian swinging to strand the runner and keep the Crimson close...
...Angie Francisco, who has been an outstanding center for two years. She did not dominate opponents like her teammates on the top line, but Francisco--who set Harvard's single-season scoring record with 57 points last year before four players passed that mark in 1998-99--quietly finished ninth in the nation with 51 points this year. Her hat trick in the championship game showed that she can score from the crease as well as create opportunities for her teammates...
...Angie Francisco, who has been an outstanding center for two years. She did not dominate opponents like her teammates on the top line, but Francisco--who set Harvard's single-season scoring record with 57 points last year before four players passed that mark in 1998-99--quietly finished ninth in the nation with 51 points this year. Her hat trick in the championship game showed that she can score from the crease as well as create opportunities for her teammates...
Parini, himself a novelist and a poet, is something of a partisan--"Robert Frost has been my favorite poet ever since the ninth grade"--but his readings of the poems and of the man are shrewd. Frost had what might be called a limited greatness. Parini's dust jacket calls him "the only truly 'national poet' America has yet produced." No. That would still be Whitman...
...astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, the ninth planet...