Men's Volleyball

The Harvard men's volleyball squad captured its third victory in its last five games with a 3-1 decision over MIT last night at the Malkin Athletic Center.

Rebounding from a frustrating loss to the Engineers ten days ago, the Crimson spikers gained revenge in a two-hour match, 15-9, 12-15, 15-8, and 15-9.

The win raises Harvard's record to 4-8 overall (3-3 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association), while its cross-town rivals fall to 5-2 (3-2 EIVA).

In its last match against the Engineers, the Crimson spikers were victimized by a height disadvantage and by the fine play of Eric Daly and Young Soo Ha. But a much stronger Harvard team showed up to play last night and curtailed the performance of the 6-ft., 4-in. Daly and the ferocious hitting of Ha.

"Harvard hit much stronger tonight," Engineer Coach Karen Altman-Velazquez said. "They improved their serve, and kept us from passing well."

The Crimson, which fell to MIT, 15-0, in the finale of the previous match, rebounded by breaking a 9-9 deadlock with a six-point run for the win.

At 14-9, the serve exchanged hands 11 times before an MIT return of Harvard's serve was drilled into the net, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead in games.

MIT pulled ahead, 10-5, in the following game, and after Harvard battled back to tie the game at 12 apiece, the visitors--behind a net call on Harvard, a good block, and a spike by Paul Stuopis--tied the match at 1-1 with a 15-12 win.

The Crimson, ahead in the third game by a score of 7-5, took eight of the next 11 points due to MIT mixups and the shining play of Young Kim.

The partisan crowd of 40, eagerly awaiting Harvard's disposal of the visitors at 14-6, had to sit through ten more minutes of agonizing tension as a relentless MIT squad--relying on spikes by Daly, Ha, and Armando Hernandez--narrowed the margin to five.

But Scott Neilson's spike nailed the Engineers' coffin, lifting the Crimson to a 15-9 victory.

Women's Squash

The Harvard women's squash team journeyed to New Haven, Conn., last night hoping to avenge its loss of the Howe Cup earlier in the season. Instead, the racquetwomen recorded their first league loss, falling to Yale 6-3.

Phoebe Trubowitz, Yale's number one player, posed little threat to the squad's plans, as Crimson Co-Captain Diana Edge knocked her off in three straight games.

Harvard's number two player Ingrid Boyum--still feeling the effects of the flu that sidelined her last weekend--lost to Yale's Anita Nador, 3-0.

Whitney Stuart, Yale's number three, blanked Harvard's Marty Winnick, 3-0.

The Crimson's number four Lucy Miller squeaked by Yale's Liz Solovay, in an upset. "They were tight games, and the victory was a great breakthrough for Lucy," Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate said.

Harvard's Fern Ward, playing in the number nine position, recorded the only other Crimson victory, sweeping Kathy Blood in three straight matches.

"It was a good match," Choate said. "We have nothing to be disappointed about. They played hard, gave it their all, and that's all a coach could ask for."