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...predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school All-American” (Baseball America)—might be the only one good enough to be familiar with all three types.These days, Salsgiver is a Harvard senior with roughly three months...
...Byrne was drilled by six pitches last season—the three people to top him all started at least 43 games. “It’s hard to keep him out of the lineup,” says current captain Morgan Brown. *** A hockey and baseball player since his youth, Byrne spoke with a number of Division I hockey programs—none, however, were as high-profile as the Crimson, with whose coaches Byrne had some contact. They discussed the possibility of his walking onto the team, and Byrne knew “the only place...
...saying, ‘I played with these guys.’ He almost hit one out—he hit one off the wall—and played some great center field. Afterwards, I said to Coach Diaz, ‘We’ve got ourselves a player...
...doubles players on Harvard men’s tennis team continued to build momentum on the season this Sunday at the Murr Center, winning their third doubles point in the last three outings and helping the Crimson defeat Michigan State, 5-2, in its second win in as many matches this month. Sophomore Gideon Valkin and junior Scott Denenberg, who teamed up once again after not playing together due to injury, defeated their opponents in decisive fashion in the No. 3 match, 8-3. Freshmen Sasha Ermakov and Nick Savage also took their match at No. 2 with a score...
Junior Siddharth Suchde’s whirlwind 2006 tour has come to a close. After having an undefeated team season, Suchde was seeded as the No. 1 player in the nation coming into this weekend’s CSA Individual National Championships and fell to three-time defending champion Yasser El Halaby of Princeton, 3-0, in the finals. “It was fitting that it was Sid and Yasser,” said captain Will Broadbent. “They are the two best college players in the nation.” Suchde shut out every opponent...