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...Crimson spent half of its break at Winter Haven, besting the Red Sox farm team, 4-3, there yesterday to avenge a trip-opening 10-8 setback more than a week before. The other game ended in a tie when rains halted play with the score deadlocked...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batsmen Start Out 4-1-1, Visit MIT Tomorrow | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...late fault call took the first set away from Warren Grossman and Loud, who failed to capitalize on three other set points en route to a 7-6 setback in the first set. Harvard took the second set, 7-5, but the Bruins claimed the third set after UCLA clinched the team competition with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 win at first doubles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Fall Just Short of an Upset | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...reversal of the results that had brought Mitterrand to office in May 1981. As a result, the left stood to lose power not in 15 cities, as it had once expected, but in about 40. Conceded Jean Poperen, deputy leader of the Socialist Party: "There has been a certain setback. I don't deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Message for Mitterrand | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Even an opening-game setback can bode well for a team's season, especially if the opponent carries the nation's top ranking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top-Ranked Johns Hopkins Fells Laxmen in Opener, 11-3 | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...despite the effects of the hard-hitting contest. Proulx expressed confidence that his team could down Harvard. "There's two games we didn't get up for [during the season] and that's Harvard and St. Lawrence," he said, explaining why the Friars would avenge the 8-5 setback the Crimson dealt Providence February 9 at Bright Center. "We owe them one," he added...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Providence Shuts Down St. Lawrence, 1-0 Faces Crimson Tonight for ECAC Crown | 3/12/1983 | See Source »

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