To no one's surprise, the Harvard women's tennis team trounced a hapless Cornell squad, 9-0, Saturday at Beren Courts.

The Crimson's systematic dismantling of the team Harvard Coach Don Usher labeled the weakest in the issues came as no great shock.

"I expected they come out the way it did," Usher said.

Coming on the heels of Friday's shutout of powerful Syracuse, this type of domination of Eastern tennis is becoming a Harvard trademark.

Charming the Hosts

With the grace and poise of champions, the netwomen meticulously, the netwomen meticulously tore apart their outclassed opponents--never allowing the Big Red so much as a flicker of hope.

"We went about it as something we just had to get out of the was a job to get done sophomore Robin Bass said.

"No one thought we would lose a set," freshman Cyndy Austrian said, "and we didn't."

Every one of the nine matcher were straightest Harvard victories, with Cornell struggling to pull out even a game in a few of the matches.

The Crimson completes its regular season with home matches against Dartmouth and Princeton on May 1 and it, respectively.

Usher is taking his usual wary stance regarding the Dartmouth match.

"This could be our toughest match of the year [excluding the spring break West Coast trip]," Usher warns.

His player have no such worries.

"I don't see much of a problem from here on in," Kathy Vignia said and Austrian went so far as to predict another 9-0 victory.

After the anticipated wins over the Big Green and Princeton, Harvard will have its third consecutive Ivy crown and a berth at the NCAAs, which begin May 16 in Oklahoma City.