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Harvard, too, has suffered far more than just two losses in its NCAA playoff defeat. Last year's game at Hartwick was as tense on the sidelines as it was on the field and the frustrating defeat wore on the nerves of the team. The atmosphere on the ride back to Cambridge stimulated hostilities that were not eased until late in April...
Harvard's varsity soccer team received the maximum score in the balloting for the top ten teams of New England this week. The Crimson was followed at a distance by Wesleyan. Brown, and Tufts in the race for four NCAA District I Playoff berths...
Late in November, the NCAA District I selection committee will extend playoff invitations to four soccer teams. Brown and Harvard will almost assuredly receive invitations because of their history of strong teams. This respect for past record is indicated by the fact that Brown, ranked third, has lost to Springfield (number 4) and has been tied by Yale (number...
...Strategy. After a deceptively sluggish start, Baltimore had yawned its way to the American League's Eastern Division championship. In the playoff opener against the Oakland A's, the Orioles faced their sternest test: Vida Blue, the fireballing lefty who led the A's to the championship of the American League's Western Division with a record of 24 wins and eight losses (including two victories over Baltimore). Blue was brilliant through the first six innings, but tired noticeably in the seventh. Exploding for four runs, Baltimore went on to win 5-3. After taking...
...pace after the first round, Lee pitched in a 105-yd. sand wedge for an eagle and holed a 35-ft. birdie putt on the final day of play to tie 47-year-old Art Wall for first place. Then, on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff, he coolly knocked in a snaking 18-ft. birdie to win the $30,000 first prize...