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What UMass did before 300 plus partisan spectators in Amherst Saturday was shut down a Harvard attack that after a slow early-season start had finally reached the top of its game Entering the quarterfinal showdown, the Ivy League champion Crimson was riding an eight game winning streak that stretched over one month. The last time the Crimson had lost, the date was April 17, the scene was Amherst, the opponent was the University of Massachusetts and the final score was 7-6 Saturday, exactly a month later, the Crimson relived that nightmare...
...Crimson will meet the University of Massachusetts at 2 p.m. Saturday in Amherst in the quarterfinals of the 1983 NCAA women's lacrosse tournament, with the winner advancing to the Final Four the next weekend at the University of Pennsylvania Any hopes of holding the Saturday showdown in the Stadium died yesterday, when the NCAA committee gave the home-field advantage to UMass...
While Harvard and UMass fight it out in Amherst three quarterfinal showdowns will be held Saturday along the Eastern seaboard. Princeton by virtue of its 12-10 first-round win over Dartmouth will meet the tourney's top seed. Temple in Philadelphia Penn. 9-5 winners over Loyola in the first-round will be at Penn State the tournament's second seed and Delaware an 11-7 winner Wednesday over Maryland All winners advance to the Final Four showdown next weekend at Penn's Franklin Field...
Missy Cohen, a freshman in the College, calls Penn "a very spirited school, with a very spirited atmosphere." Her classmate, Maryanne C. Wysell, points to exciting, campus-wide event like Spring Fling and this year's Harvard-Pennsylvania football showdown for a stake of the Ivy title (Penn won, 23-21) as times when "it seems as if the whole university is there...
...squad put together one of its finest performances of the year yesterday, as the Crimson shut down a visiting Northwestern team, 9-4, in the first round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament. With its convincing victory, Harvard moves into the tourney's quarterfinal round and a Saturday showdown with the University of Massachusetts. The site of the game will be determined by the NCAA today...