A young and talented women's squash team heads into the second half of the winter campaign after a strong pre-exam finish in January. Coach Paul Moses' 6-0 team whipped Dartmouth and Williams, 6-1 and 5-2, respectively, before exams.

Captain Jenny Stone, with a 5-0 record, leads the trio of Crimson racquet women who have posted perfect records for the season. Joining Stone are junior Margo McGlade, 6-0, and first-year sensation Courtney Stimpson, 6-0.

Top-ranked Becky Tung has sat out the last two matches with a sore knee; and the Harvard success despite her absence makes the wins especially impressive.

With Nell Foreman and Wendy Sonnabend joining the rest of the lineup, Harvard will carry a strong contingent to New Haven this weekend in search of the prestigious Howe Cup. With Tung expected to return for the weekend action, the women will move ahead full strength for the heavy Ivy schedule awaiting them in February.

Women's Fencing

When Dartmouth threw three left-handers at the Crimson women in the team's only January meet. Harvard stumbled a bit at the start. But a comeback victory by captain Kathy Lowry and a strong showing by junior Jenny Laforet turned the tide on the Hanover lancers and upped the Harvard record to 4-0.

Freshman Carolyn Powell, who went down to defeat in the Dartmouth match, has proved herself a reliable addition to the Crimson lineup since her astounding debut against Southeastern Massachusetts when she notched 5-0, 5-1, and 5-0 wins.

As a team, the fencers have looked solid all season, carving out three fairly convincing wins and a fourth narrow edge against the tough MIT contingent. With Princeton in line for this weekend, the Ivy battles begin; and the women will need their quickest parries to keep their record perfect.

Men's Fencing

For the men behind the masks, exams were a somewhat joyous celebration of a tension-packed, wild win over Dartmouth, 14-13, before the January break.

In one of the finest contests of the winter season--in any sport--the men locked horns with a spunky Hanover squad and knotted the score at 13-all with one bout to go.

Enter first-year fencer Steve Biddle, a sophomore who took up the sport only a year earlier. The Crimson epeeman battled Dartmouth's top epeeman, Kai Christensen, in the nerve-racking decision-maker, and he scored a 5-2 win to give Harvard the match and a 4-1 record.

Captain Gene Vastola has turned in consistently superb performances this season, winning three bouts against Dartmouth, with only three touches against him in that meet, and going 3-0 against Army to enter February with a 6-0 winning streak.

Epeeman Mike Bierer has also steadied the Crimson attack, and he and his teammates face a long two months as the season resumes, beginning today at Holy Cross and finishing with the IFA Championships scheduled for March 9 and 10 in Cambridge.

Men's Track